Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...languished in committee, despite increasing public pressure. In Manhattan, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reversing an earlier resolution, voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...
During the first meeting around the brand-new green baize (the old cloth had been stolen by a souvenir hunter after last year's peace conference), Molotov sat and listened to Bevin and Bidault. They wanted to establish international commissions to Marshall-plan European recovery on a continental basis. Then, with instructions from the Kremlin, Molotov spoke...
...asked how much she was prepared to give before Europe declared how much she needed. The representative of the world's first planned state came out flatly against any international planning, because it would constitute "interference with other nations' internal affairs." He demanded that each European nation assess its own national needs, and then forward the bill...
Tass echoed his speech: "The Soviet people is successfully carrying out its postwar Stalin Five year Plan. This insures a steady rise of the material and cultural well-being of the Soviet people. . . .* Other European countries are now engaged in [similar] plans. . . . The Soviet Union . . . more than once offered resistance to attempts at foreign intervention...
...compromise with the Russians. Paris had been the last chance for One Europe (a U.S. reporter had dubbed the Parrot Salon, where the Ministers met, the "Last Chance Saloon"). For those nations which wanted to take part, the U.S. could push the Marshall Plan ahead without Russia. Eastern European nations would be forced by Russia to stay out. If western and central Europe recovered more rapidly, eastern Europeans would not thank Russia for blocking their recovery. It would be years before Russia, recovering very slowly (see FOREIGN NEWS), could help her satellites. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam had found...