Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Until [there is a] restoration of a healthy European community, it does not appear possible that paper agreements can assure a lasting peace. Agreements between sovereign states are generally the reflection and not the cause of genuine settlements...
...Soviet Union has recognized the situation in its frank declaration of hostility and opposition to the European recovery program. . . . The issue is really clear cut, and I fear there can be no settlement until the coming months demonstrate whether or not the civilization of Western Europe will prove vigorous enough to rise . . . and restore a healthy society. Officials of the Soviet Union and leaders of the Communist Parties openly predict that this restoration will not take place. We . . . are confident in the rehabilitation of Western European civilization with its freedoms...
...final, scurrying hours before adjournment, President Harry Truman last week sent to Congress his specifications for restoring peace & prosperity to Western Europe under the European Recovery Program. It was a momentous document. In 9,000 sober, deliberate words, the President asked the U.S. to pit its full economic strength against the destruction of war and the disruptive forces of aggressive Communism...
...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
Congressmen could not go home for Christmas with easy minds. Before they left Washington, they would get Harry Truman's message on the long-range European Recovery Program. That would need much mulling over. In the new year, it would generate long and bitter debate...