Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iowa felt strongly that European war was inevitable and blamed Hitler more bitterly than 1941's Kaiser. Iowa would send the Democracies supplies and munitions...
Detroit editors listened intently to some motor and oil bigwigs who said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal...
...peace gesture designed to back up the President's peace message last week (see p. 13) by moving the Battle Fleet 3,000 miles farther westward from Europe; 2) probably was a threat to Japan, should the time come for it to fall in with European war plans, and 3) certainly was a tangible reminder to Hitler & Mussolini that the U. S. has a potent force to be moved here or there at the President's command...
Alarms. By lining up on their side Eastern European countries from the Baltic to the Aegean, the British and French did much to restore the balance of power that had recently been weighted heavily in the dictators' favor. They also convinced many an observer that war had been made inevitable. When the British guarantee to Poland was announced three weeks ago, the Axis answered by the seizure of Albania. With Greece and Rumania added to the Peace Front last week, all Europe knew that it was again Hitler's and Mussolini's move. The German press screamed...
Actually left in the League are none but France and Britain (and some of their proteges), Russia and small fry nations: the Scandinavian countries, 13 minor European countries, ten Latin American countries, Liberia, Turkey, the unconquered tag-end of China, the defunct Republic of Spain, and the late Kingdom of Ethiopia (as represented by Haile Selassie). This League of leftovers represents only one of Europe's two clattering armed camps, and no altercation was ever settled by having only one side sit down and talk things over...