Word: european
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOLLOWING the course of European economic recovery, FOREIGN NEWS found that Europe is amassing gold and dollars at such a clip that the U.S., to protect its own economic strength, must press other nations to shoulder an increasing share of the burden of aid to underdeveloped countries. Around this basic point developed a definitive story of a momentous shift in the balance between the Old World...
...called "art silo" breaks with the tradition which has copied palaces for museums--European palaces which are, in fact, makeshift. With his genius for asking basic questions all over again, Wright searched for the simplest way to show pictures...
There is no doubt that there were several Communist party members and fellow travellers among the twenty-four, but most were simply swept up by the energy of the European student groups. Most were unaware of the Russian Communist plot to create the organization, then subvert it and turn it into a front for Communist propaganda. The existence of that plot was confirmed several years later by a man who had been working with Allied intelligence in Austria. He told an NSA national officer that he had found out plans of the Communist group, which urged the formation...
...probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...
Both sides, however, maintain enough votes to prevent the other from achieving the necessary two-thirds vote. The logical and most diplomatic action for the U.S. would be to switch its support to the compromise candidacy of Yugoslavia, an acceptable eastern European country. We should also support the motion of eight non-communist nations for the enlargement of the Security Council from eleven to eighteen members, thus preventing the recurrence of such a contest and reffecting the growth of the U.N. during the last fourteen years...