Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...port of Bizerte in Tunisia 50 bearded old Moslem dignitaries, turbaned and in silk robes, presented flowers to M. Daladier. Silk-hatted French officials, in traditional morning garb, gave him European handshakes. The 7,500 British subjects of the protectorate praised French rule in a joint letter to the Premier. The Moslem population of Tunis gave his motorcade a wildly enthusiastic reception...
Thus runs a significant passage in Mein Kampf, Germany's Gospel-According-to-Hitler, which, written in jail in 1924, has called every turn on European history since...
From textbook publishers' presses today pours a flood of books designed to teach democracy. Many of these books are less benign toward modern dictatorships than pre-War texts were toward the old European monarchies. Some denounce dictators. But most contemporary history books balance their moral indignation, state the dictatorships' case and let pupils judge for themselves. Sample excerpts...
From a college European history: "Among them Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States own or control something like three-fourths of the earth's surface. . . . They constitute the real world powers and are the Haves. . . . Japan, Italy and Germany . . . although territorially no match for the four giants . . . are inhabited by spirited peoples by no means willing to accept their present inferiority as if it had been ordered for all time by a divine decree...
...European typhus fever, also called "spotted fever'' and "ship fever," is not to be confused with typhoid fever. For generations it was the scourge of armies, and it still flourishes in Poland, Russia and the Balkans. It is transmitted by lice and fleas (hence delousing stations in the World War). The disease is due to a cosmopolitan virus called Rickettsia prowazeki,* which dwells in the intestines of the filthy little insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial...