Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public hearings on the European Recovery Program ended last week. Before they did, all kinds of citizens had come forward to speak their minds. George P. Murdock, a Yale anthropology professor, thought ERP should be abandoned in favor of "the greatest Red Cross drive in history." Joe Scott, president of the League for an Undivided Ireland, wanted a guarantee that England would get no money to perpetuate Irish partition...
Back from a European tour last week, Bowles boosted the impartial character of the U.N. drive, poked at U.S. (and Soviet) aid programs as "political": "[Recipients] are bitter at having to swallow the hammer & sickle or the American eagle. . . ." It was a bumbling beginning, but the American people, whose tax dollars had provided billions of unconditional foreign aid, could be expected to chip in again...
Vincent P. Moravec '50, 1947 Varsity football captain, will carry the ball for European recovery as student chairman of the "Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan" which emerged from a meeting of 47 organization heads and Faculty members last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...Committee's ideas concerning the general line the influence should take is equally clear cut. The legislation, it feels, must provide for enough money to make the program one of recovery rather than one of relief. The legislation must provide a positive program for European aid, not a negative anti-Russian economic weapon. It must not be used as a lever to influence the internal politics of the European nations involved. Finally, it must be implemented as much as possible through the United Nations. This program has deliberately been exempted from rigorous technicalities. The Committee, again displaying sanity...
...views with sufficient vehemence and cogency, and to create enough popular support for them to influence Congress in this year of our election, 1948 A.D. The Republicans have been placed in a difficult position by the Marshall Plan. They have been forced to acknowledge the necessity of a European Recovery Program, but they have been prone to tinker with the Administration's proposals. It would be nicer for their political future, they feel, if they could take credit for the program themselves. This is but one example of the sort of political maneuvering which, together with the very real...