Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European reaction to last Tuesday's election has been genuine amazement over "the American turn to the right while the rest of the world veers further to the left." While the degree of change in American foreign and domestic policy as been exaggerated by European observers, there is a strong element of truth in this description of the American European political cleavage. Whether this clear difference in political outlook will seriously affect the construction of a stable peace will be determined within the next two years as Republicans attempt to cross party lines in a bi-partisan foreign policy...
...participation and the Bretton Woods agreement are only the keystones at the top of the new world security structure. The foundations of the peace lie deep in world economics, most fundamentally in the ability of the United States to cooperate with the reconstructing European powers. Tax cuts at home may well imply the withdrawal of U.S. troops from vital occupation zones. Cooperation cannot mean tariff protectionism, rejection of the Hull reciprocity program, and the curtailment of American foreign investment,--apparent objectives of the Republicans in the 79th Congress...
...Spirits. Madame Blavatsky began life as an adventuress. Born (1831) in the Ukraine of an aristocratic Russian family, she was married at 16 to General Nicephore Blavatsky, deserted him three months later to spend the next 25 years traipsing through European third-class hotels with a broken-down singer. For a while, she operated a shady spiritualist "society" in Cairo. In 1873, at the age of 41, she decided to try the New World...
...Russia, and especially, in a backhanded way, to Lenin. In 1921 Lenin found time for a campaign-much like Hitler's later one-of "organized indignation" against modernists in Russia, which drove the incorrigibles from the country. In exile they contributed to the main stream of European art history. Among them: expressionist Marc Chagall; the late abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky...
...Murphy did it. Last week the Murphys were 1) bringing a VIP's wife and seven children from Iran, 2) hunting a consulate in Manhattan for the Philippines, 3) trying to buy 10,000,000 feet of iron pipe and 50,000 tons of sheet steel for a European...