Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gideon's Army was on the march. Henry Wallace's third party, as yet nameless and pennonless (but not penniless), bivouacked briefly last week on Capitol Hill. Wallace had come, at his own request, to deliver an attack on the European Recovery Program before the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...stiffly: "I am not familiar with the Communist approach. I am not prepared to discuss it. I don't know what the Communist objection is. I don't follow the Communist literature." South Dakota's Karl Mundt asked him if he thought Russia was meddling in European affairs. No one could say for sure, Wallace replied, because it was "impossible to get at the truth from what we read in the American press." The press and committee members laughed...
...Europeans. Up in his study, within earshot of the singing students, was the man from whom the country expected an answer. For a long time President Eduard Benes had thought he knew where his home was. He was a European and a democrat. All his life he had believed in "synthesis." It was a faith, shared by millions of liberals everywhere, that the 20th Century's clashing opposites (even Communism and democracy) could be reasonably reconciled...
...Marshall Plan" which has achieved a wide acceptance by honest liberals suffering from a "Lesser of two evils" psychology, ought really to be recognized to be made up of two quite different things. There is the Marshall Proposal of the Harvard speech of June, 1947; and there is the European Recovery Plan as formulated at present...
This distinction between the "Marshall Proposal" and the E.R.P. has recently been noticed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan. The Harvard Committee for Wallace supports, and has supported, the Marshall Proposal, but feels compelled to oppose the European Recovery Plan. The E.R.P., instead of carrying out the original suggestion, rather, effectively distorts it into an extension of the Truman Doctrine, (which has tended to confuse Fascism with Democracy.) We advocate, as does the Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, economic reconstruction through the U. N. with no political strings attached. Up to this point...