Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacations have begun in the Paris office and before we have assembled again, around the end of October, members of this staff will have been relaxing at points east, west, north and south of the French capital, in half a dozen European countries, and on two continents...
...outlined but not named, U.S. citizens were asked to tell which was which. The wife of an Illinois school superintendent thought that Germany was France, Austria was Yugoslavia, put Bulgaria in Hungary, Rumania in Czechoslovakia and Poland in Turkey. The average U.S. woman put only five out of twelve European countries in their proper places; the average man got six right. Only one in seven knew where Bulgaria belonged...
...meet again until next January, can pride itself on having been active enough in its seven-month session, but in too many things it has willingly failed. Broadly, the reason has been a confusion of statesmanship and politics, leading to such asinine Republican challenges as. "No tax relief, no European relief." Sinking back comfortably into their trust in man's supposed basic selfishness, these Congressional leaders based their political hopes on a fantastic combination of a brave, new isolationism and a hideous fear of Russia. But while a great deal of bumbling has been done about communism, labor unions...
There are many things a statesmanlike Congress might have done in this period. A speedy application of European relief not only would serve one of the greatest humanitarian needs of all time, but would, by concrete evidence, give Europeans something to thing about in favor of American and her system of government. Tiredly shelving a bill to help solve the DP problem by letting some immigrants into the country, Congress has instead pushed to absured measures the attempt to "roundup" communists, whose influence of course is nil in a country as rich as the U.S. today...
...diverse points, hope must be suspended until next January. Perhaps then the legislators will form a consistent policy, a little more free from more sniping at the administration, as to what will eventually do the country most good. This will have to include a broad program of European relief and an understanding as to what part will necessarily be played by labor and by government regulations in the next few stormy years...