Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more fateful now than it was a year ago. By intimidation, fraud and terror, Communist regimes have been imposed upon Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Totalitarian control has been tightened in other countries of Eastern Europe, and these states have been linked together in a network of alliances. Other European peoples face a similar threat...
Whose Divisions? In the face of such complaints and, even more important, in the face of the European crisis, Secretary Forrestal knew that he had to settle two serious arguments decisively. The first concerned the future of the Marine Corps. The Army, having difficulty in filling its depleted ranks, looked with covetous eyes at the Navy's two Marine divisions (almost half of the nation's active ground strength...
...Salon de l'Horloge of the Foreign Ministry, the conference chairman, Ernest Bevin, told them: "I think the world might be assured that this organization is not a conference but a workshop. It will be charged with the duty of determining practical steps to build up European production [and] to reduce the dollar deficit...
Then they got down to business. Chief items on the agenda: 1) to set up a European body to supervise Marshall Plan aid; 2) to work out a declaration of economic policy. They would try to decide just what each nation could best produce with its machines and men, how to reduce tariff barriers, how to bring the official value of national currencies into line with real purchasing power...
Fortunately the structure for an altered policy already exists. Both the European Recovery Program and the Brussels Pact will serve well if administered under the reoriented recognition that non-Communist leftist leaders have something to offer their respective nations, a middleway alternative capable of competing successfully with Communist parties and thus of stopping the Russian dominance of Europe that Communists victories inherently involve...