Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latin Energy. For well-heeled foreigners, Italy is the most comfortable of all the European countries that took part in the war. There is hardly a pretense of rationing. The whole country is on the black market. For the rich there are unlimited quantities of consumer goods-women's clothing, shoes, leather goods, etc. of the most elegant quality. The poor are badly off, but not any worse off than they are elsewhere in Europe...
Written under the twin delusions that Americans were chiefly of Anglo-Saxon origin, and that this stock was greatly preferable to Eastern and Southern European strains, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 limits total annual immigration to 150,000, with individual nations held to a number proportional to their representation in the total 1920 United States population. However, the "Anglo-Saxons" and "Nordies" received a disproportionately large slice, for other Europeans were considered to be relatively inferior and undesirable. The emigration motivations of the latter were thought to be economic rather than religious or political. Unskilled and numerous, they appeared...
...thinking smacks of Alice-in Wonderland in 1946. Western Europeans have shown little tendency to emigrate. Rather, the great mass of potential immigrants stem from Eastern Europe and seek no economic mecca but merely a simon simple escape from religious and political persecution. Objective tests have conclusively exposed the myth of racial superiority and inferiority. Thoroughly assimilated and educated, second generation Americans of Easttern and southern European stock have proved that previous environment, not race, accounted for the initially poor impressions made by their parents...
...both in the Army and on the American Commission to Negotiate Peace from 1917 to 1920, he worked in the American Embassy and legation in Belgium during 1920. In the years 1925-26, he was chief of the U. S. Department of Commerce in Europe and lecturer on European trade and economics at Georgetown University. In 1927 he returned to Harvard to teach Slavonic and Germanic languages...
...brilliant student of languages, he was familiar with a dozen European tongues, and in 1942 he served as an interpreter at a White House conference between President Roosevelt and Molotov. In recent years he has been editor and manager of the "Slavonic and East European Review...