Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion of this House, steps should now be taken, in consultation with the other members of the British Commonwealth, to create in Western Europe a political union strong enough to save European democracy and the values of western civilization; and a trading area large enough, with the colonial territories, to enable its component parts to achieve economic recovery and stability...
...emergency policy should establish forthwith a Council of Western Europe consisting of representatives of the governments of the sixteen participating countries in the European Recovery Plan, and Western Germany, to lay down the broad lines of common action. The council should have power to set up permanent international staffs to coordinate the social, economic and defense policies...
...first and most important task of the economic staff would be to frame concrete proposals for the stabilization of the currencies of Western Europe; for the development of trade; for the execution of the European Recovery Plan; for a comprehensive production plan, including agriculture and the heavy industries; and for colonial development. The necessary staffs should act under the direction, and by the authority, of the Council of Western Europe; and should be in continuous session...
They confiscated the estate of Baron George Daubek, central European representative of International Business Machines and husband of New York Metropolitan Opera Singer Jarmila Novotna; they announced that Daubek no longer had "an open protector" in the Czech cabinet. They did not say who the protector had been. The late Jan Masaryk had played piano accompaniments for Novotna on U.S. recordings of Czech folk songs...
...lessons stand out . . . apart from Britain's nakedness," said the London Times. "The first and most important is the utter dependence of the Old World upon the New. The second ... is the decisive necessity for the European Recovery Program...