Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the story was being widely quoted and reprinted in the European press. It was a typical TIME story which originated out of a query by TIME'S International and Foreign News editor asking the present state of the postwar political situation in Western Europe's oldest dictatorship. Percy Knauth, one of our most experienced European hands, was dispatched to Portugal to get the facts. Saporiti, who knows Portugal intimately, worked with him. Knauth mailed his voluminous, documented research to New York, and the story was written...
...impact upon the Portuguese might have been less if they had been accustomed to the benefits of a free press. As it was, opinions about the Salazar cover ranged from extremes of approval to extremes of disapproval. Government officials and party supporters were "outraged" at its description of "another European dictatorship [that] had failed"; oppositionists felt that it should have been stronger. Middleof-the-roaders commented that the story had "really hit pretty much the nose...
...Eastern Front, the Germans had been devastatingly thorough. The old, walled Polish city of Cracow remained, in a sea of flattened middle-European towns. Kiev went the way of Warsaw, and with it the onion-domed Pechersk Lavra (cave monastery) which was the first fountainhead of Russian Christianity...
...took his idea to Nicholas Murray Butler, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and two years later found himself director of the Carnegie-endowed Institute of International Education. With $60,000 a year from Carnegie, Duggan set to work arranging "marriages" between U.S. and European universities, selected the U.S. students to go abroad on scholarships, placed and chaperoned the visiting students, also promoted faculty exchanges. In its first 25 years the Institute placed 2,046 Europeans and Asiatics and 1,131 Latin Americans in U.S. universities, sent 2,344 U.S. students abroad...
...discuss Mr. Wallace's proposal that the United States should be more generous toward Russia. I did say that it might be important that such compromises as were actually concluded between the two countries should be generous to the European peoples directly concerned, and that they should be based on a willingness of both sides to see each other grow in prosperity, rather than on a mutual effort to increase each other's difficulties. In this connection I referred to the suggestions after the Paris Conference that a broader approach to peace-making was needed, as expressed by Britain...