Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed during the past year because he has provided no military bite to back up his diplomatic bark. Selective Service and Universal Military Training, he feels together with such men as James F. Byrnes and Walter Lippman, will provide the necessary bite. They will show both Russia and those European nations which may in the future fall into Russia's sphere that we "mean business." Russia is supposed to respond by displaying new respect for the potency of American policy; and nations such as France and Italy, theoretically, will be encouraged by this new and positive display of American interest...
Truman proposed a peacetime draft, prompt passage of universal military training and immediate positive action on the European Recovery Program...
...only choice left us is between the Marshall Plan and nothing at all," Schlesinger said, "and, despite the Wallace claims, there is no doubt that the non-communist European left desperately wants and needs the Marshall Plan...
Three events of crucial importance, he pointed out, made the way an appropriate one for a discussion of Western Europe's future. President Truman's speech on American foreign policy, the signing of the Western European agreement in Brussels, and the opening of debate on the Czechoslovakian situation in the Security Council are of the highest significance...
Clash of Economies. Last week Spaak said bluntly that he did not think the Western nations have done enough to blend their economies in selfhelp. "All the Western European powers have been practicing a fairly individualistic, not to say selfish, economic policy. We have all tried to save ourselves in very different ways. Some have pursued a policy of austerity [Britain], others a policy of abundance [Belgium], or dirigisme [The Netherlands]. Others, in their search for recovery, do not hesitate to fling themselves into purely monetary manipulations [France...