Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe, came before the U.N. Russia, interested in delaying peace rather than in promoting it, promptly balked. The issue was raised by U.N.'s Economic & Social Council in an awesome, 450-page report on Europe's economy. Recommended: integration of Europe's economy under an all-European Economic Commission (in effect, an economic United States of Europe). Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov denounced the plan as "not very desirable to Russia," implied that it was a capitalist plot "to make good profits...
...European students are trying desperately to prepare themselves for the leadership expected of them," said Otto Borch, University of Copenhagen student in an exclusive interview with a CRIMSON representative last night...
...desperate shortage of books is one of the greatest hindrances to the re-emergence of the European educational system. In most universities in Poland the only "textbooks" available are lecture notes taken by the students...
Borch is in the United States as one of seven European students who are being sent throughout the country by the World Student Service Fund in an attempt to acquaint American students with the plight of the future leaders of Europe...
...hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help the Poor Struggler") and to chicken farming...