Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations which comprise the European Economic Conference had been meeting in Paris since July 12. Presumably they were working out, in concert, a plan whereby Europe, with U.S. money and goods, could help itself back to economic health. But last week, dispatches from Paris told a different story...
...nations were, in effect, drawing up 16 separate shopping lists to present to the U.S., and the total amount of the lists ran to about $30 billion for the next four years. This was some $10 to $15 billion more than Washington had counted on. Moreover, the European nations could not foresee, even after $30 billion worth of help, how they could become wholly selfsupporting...
...going to go on giving aid, we must clearly look forward to the day when either the aid works or-if it is not going to do the job . . . we'd better know now rather than later." Bob Lovett's tone was soft, but no European diplomat missed the note of warning. This week, with George Kennan looking over their shoulders, the conferees started to do some trimming...
...British aim was a producing western Germany that could 1) pay for itself and 2) contribute more coal, machinery, and other exports toward general European recovery. There would, however, be no immediate miracles; experts thought it would take until 1951, even with good luck, to reach the 10.7 million ton ceiling in food-short, materials-short Germany...
...fact that Germany could make three times as much armament as France could. As long as the French stayed ahead, it was safe to let German industry rise. Europe would never be rebuilt if keeping the absolute level of German industry down was made the first consideration of European planning...