Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This novel argument the Commander used in presenting to the House a bill to confer Palestine citizenship upon "oppressed European Jews" who might benefit from it. For example, according to Locker-Lampson, any European Jews now being mistreated in Austria would be enabled by this bill to assume "extraterritorial citizenship in Palestine," and they could then apply in Vienna for the aid of His Britannic Majesty's consul general...
Immediately after the signing, Premier Mussolini and Prime Minister Chamberlain exchanged cablegrams of warmest friendship and at the U. S. State Department experts said that a long step had been taken toward blocking another European war, laying the foundation for ultimately drawing Britain, Germany, Italy and France into a Four-Power Peace Pact...
...bustling American and European salesmen who made the inaugural trip were delighted that they had been spared the hitherto unavoidable, tedious, 48-hour journey from Bagdad, Iraq to Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...
Westernization. The King of Kings combines his knowledge of time-honored Iranian political methods with a passion for reform and an incorrigible interest in blue prints. Despiser of meddling, dictating European governments, he nevertheless admires Western habits and dress, Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy...
...Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also taught himself to read, write and use the typewriter...