Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Save the Marshall Plan" rally will sweep into Sanders Theater this evening to climax a hasty but determined movement to influence Congressional action on the European Recovery Program. In a remarkably short time, the "Save ERP" campaign has spread to 35 colleges and universities in New England. Local committees have hustled out hundreds of letters, petitions, and telegrams to Congressmen, and in at least 20 of those schools, rallies similar to tonight's are planned...
...Taft and Ball, who want to slice the program drastically, for reasons of "economy." If this ill-advised scissoring succeeds in turning the recovery program into a parsimonious dole for Europe's needy, then Mr. George Weller, whose letter appears elsewhere on this page, may be right. Such a "European Relief Plan" would actively encourage Communists, whose greatest fear is a courageous program of reconstruction...
...afraid the final result will somehow be less than perfect. Others complain that the whole recovery problem should go to the United Nations, where they hope that the Russians would be persuaded to agree with us. Still another powerful school of thought holds that we must wield European aid as a political weapon first and foremost, and that any possible economic benefits to the nations concerned are of relative unimportance. And there are only a few steps between this position and the belief that a so-called "preventive" war can alone preserve...
...want (1) reconstruction, not relief, (2) a positive program, (3) no political conditions, (4) the use of U.N. facilities, (5) European co-operation, and (6) non-partisan support...
...feel our efforts in gaining wide-spread support for this program will greatly further a constructive liberal approach to the present European problem...