Word: europeanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While people talked, more earnestly than ever before, about a possible European federation, the Lowlands countries did something about it. The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (an economic unit which would likely rank third after U.S. and Britain as the world's biggest free-enterprise producer and customer) were well on the way to economic unity. Last week they were represented at the International Trade Conference (see below) by one delegation, had given other nations tentative lists of common customs duties...
...many a European mind the yearning was there, deep and ancient. If the partitions of Europe were dissolved, if a union of nations were achieved-might there not be more peace and plenty than the living could remember? Especially after the wars, when weakened nations struggled to rebuild, the idea grew...
...Fashioned Loan. Norway was the first European country to attempt to float a big private loan in the U.S. through regular banking channels. It filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for a $10,000,000 issue of ten-year 3.5% sinking-fund bonds to increase its dollar exchange reserves...
...United States as a lunatic advocate of soulless mechanization, Walter Gropius is today nevertheless the humbly proud Papa of a New Architecture which has tenaciously taken root to challenge traditionalist patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...
Most intelligent Europeans know quite well that they could not stand aside in event of a Russian-U. S. struggle, but they have suffered so much that fear overcomes reason. Unlike the U.S.'s old isolationism, the new European brand does not spring from a sense of security, but from an overwhelming knowledge of insecurity. Britain's R. H. S. Grossman, a leader of the dissident Laborites, put it thus: "Europe has become a relatively unimportant place . . . where the atom bombs meant to fall on America will fall short on Britain. . . . This country is now indefensible...