Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novice at Government assignments. He was on the Harriman Committee which recently measured how much European aid the U.S. could afford. This week he returned from a State Department economic mission to the Far East. He was mentioned as a possible administrator of the Marshall Plan almost as soon as Congress began discussing the program. His chief sponsor was George Marshall; he also had the approval of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. In his testimony before Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee, Hoffman outlined his conception of the nation's task in Europe: "If production can be increased by one-third...
...what Europe's statesmen were thinking, planning and doing. Today the U.S. and the world are more interested in what the people of Western Europe are thinking. What the Italian voters do in their April 18 elections, for instance, is far more important than almost anything a Western European statesman might do at this time...
Cursed Man. ECA's administrator would not have a star to steer by. He would not be able to navigate by orthodox economic rules. ECA's money would finance roughly one-half of all Western Europe's imports next year. European governments, many of them socialistic, would expect him to continue artificially propping up their present living standards as a wall against Communism. Said a Washington official: "He will be a cursed...
...immemorial festival. It also brought, as always after the cold days and long dark nights, a mood of revived hope. Europe needed it. For the mood of Western Europe was a mixture of anxieties as much as hopes, of discouragements as much as resolution. A great deal of the European mood was apparent in what people did and chatted about; something more became clear in the answers they gave in simultaneous surveys* of what they thought and expected...
...somehow, the European feels, catastrophe will not strike tomorrow or the day after. Consulting his expectations, he believes that he is likely to be better off five years from now, in the spring of '53, rather than worse off. Most optimistic are Britons (3 to 1) and Italians (5 to 1). Meanwhile, despite economic and political issues that devil him whenever he stops to think about them, the Western European has work...