Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican regulars looked at Harold Stassen with new interest. Partly it was because the overworked gossip about other presidential possibilities had turned stale for the time being. Partly it was because GOPsters were curious about the impact of his European jaunt. But mostly it was because of Stassen himself...
...when the meetings got down to the brass tacks of Professor Chafee's draft of an agenda, Expert Lomakin did not go along. On the nub of press freedom-elimination of peacetime censorship-Consul Lomakin was adamant. He proposed that the coming conference (in a European city to be selected later) be specifically prevented from considering such a step. He argued that censorship was exercised normally only against newsmen who were not acting in good faith and whose reports were designed to create misunderstanding and friction between nations. "Naturally," said Lomakin, "no Government can stand for that...
...sickening after each war to reconstruct the same old European crazy quilt. Of course this European unity must be entirely voluntary. Although its present divisions are killing it, Europe, the birthplace of Western civilization, does not wish to be-and must not be-"united" under any foreign ruler...
Arabs insist on ignoring the cry from European refugee Jews for admission to the Holy Land. Faris el Khoury brought in some dubious history to deny their connection with Palestine. "Who are the Jews of eastern Europe?" he asked. "They are Mongols who were near the Aral Lake, north of the Caspian Sea. . . . They were pagans at first, but their Prince, in the 7th or 8th Century, said: 'It is shameful for us to be pagans.' " The Prince, according to El Khoury, found that Christians and Moslems would be willing to accept Judaism as a second choice, that...
...kind of conversational sword play between U.S. Foreign Correspondent Percy Winner and an Italian journalist named Dario Duvolti rustles throughout this urban study of a European Fascist intellectual. When Winner first met Dario in 1925 he was reminded of Count Keyserling's remark about the women of Italy-that as young girls they dream of being grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young...