Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rives explained that the purpose of the trip was two-fold: First, "to help in the rebuilding of a wartorn European country; and second, to bring American students in contact with European students in a common, constructive, peaceful purpose...
...note arrived and he learned that after March 31 Britain would be unable to continue help to Greece and Turkey. Marshall understood that that meant a great deal more than it said. If Britain could no longer hold (at a relatively small cost) the key position in both the European and Middle Eastern conflict with Russia, then Britain could hold no key positions. If Greece and Turkey went, Italy and France, India and Indonesia might all be lost in a chain reaction. One Senator who heard the news at the White House said: "It's the biggest thing since...
...bull-necked veteran in a heavy black overcoat leaped forward and tried to wrest the rifle from the nearest cop. Another gendarme smashed his rifle butt into the attacker's face. Thousands of throats roared defiance of the police and the Government. Belgium, the European belligerent to recover most rapidly after the war, last week was having a bonus-hungry veterans' riot...
...Government had licked inflation. But trade was stagnating. Wailed Catholic Opposition Leader Frans van Cauwelaert: "We have wasted our chances, we have squandered our resources. For too long now we have gobbled down the compliments of visiting foreigners, telling us how well off we are compared to other European nations...
They were on their way to the Paraguayan Chaco, where Canadian and European Mennonites, in settlements now decades old, have made the swampy wilderness bear fat crops of cotton and kaffir corn. There the immigrants will have a chance to prove by the banks of the Paraguay what their co-religionists have proved by the banks of the Susquehanna, the Dnieper and Canada's Red River-that Menno Simons' followers are among the world's best farmers...