Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noticeable to me, as it must have been to many other Americans of Irish birth or descent, was TIME'S (Sept.11 issue) omission of Ireland's leaders in the list of those of other European countries as of September, 1939 . . . In her position as a mother country and considering her present political status, Ireland (especially Eire) would seem to be inadequately represented by the named governors of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nor can a citizen of Eire, as exemplified by Cinemactor Errol Flynn, be reasonably designated a Briton when Cinemactor Raymond Massey is designated a Canadian. . . . Seemingly...
Record. Austria and Czecho-Slovakia did not fight and received no mercy; Poland fought. The third European republic to end within the last year and a half, it had much to fight for. Finicky Westerners complained that Poland's democracy was superficial, Leftists bedazzled by propaganda about collective farms sympathized with its poor peasantry. But Poland had a record of social progress which, in terms of her initial difficulties, seemed as imposing as those of Europe's totalitarian States. Its Sejm, or Parliament, looked feeble compared to London or Washington. But it was Jeffersonian compared to the drilled...
...Third Hitler visit (August 25): "The only signs of excitement on Herr Hitler's part were when he referred to Polish persecutions. . . . [He] said there had been an other case of castration. Among the points mentioned by Herr Hitler were: That the only winner of another European war would be Japan ; that he was by nature an artist, not a politician, and once the Polish question had been settled he would end his life as an artist not as a warmonger; he did not want to turn Germany into nothing but a military barracks and he would only...
...American policy is that the bonds of trade are stronger than non-aggression pacts, more enduring thin military alliances. Last week, the U. S. and the 20 Latin American republics sat down at the council table in walled Panama City to close a united trade front against commerce-ruining European...
...Cross's background for his new avocation goes beyond the academic. For six years after graduating from Harvard he served in the foreign service of the Department of Commerce; part of that time as commercial attache at Brussels and the Hague, and for the remainder as the Department's European chief...