Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American opposition to the exclusion of Spain is a partial result of pressure from U. S. airlines eager for Spanish airfields with which to tap the lucrative European air market. As has been too often the case in our domestic history, the realities of profit and loss statements have now been substituted for moral value in our present foreign policy. Only in those instances where the prospect of capital gain has not been a factor has our policy towards Franco been uncompromising. Such a case arose at Lake Success last week when the United States joined with the other nations...
...Geneva restaurant whose walls were hung with malicious caricatures of statesmen of the Europe which had just died. Cigaret smoke spiraled spectrally across figures of Laval, Briand, Chamberlain, Mussolini, as the intellectuals discussed the mistakes of the past and tried to lay a groundwork for a new pan-European peace of the mind...
Victors & Vanquished. For the first time since the war, representatives of the victors and vanquished met on common ground to face common problems. Some decisions: the delegates recognized the collective war guilt of the German people (acknowledged by Jaspers); recognized the collective guilt of all Europeans; recognized their common responsibility for salvaging or resurrecting the chief moral values of western civilization. The delegates agreed to organize a permanent congress of European intellectuals...
Sweden's two-man Davis Cup team-lean Lennart Bergelin and stocky little Torsten Johansson-finally reached the end of the line. Mostly hothouse trained on flossy indoor courts, they had managed with luck and Nordic determination to cop the European crown. Last week in the interzone final at Forest Hills, the U.S. squad blew the Swedes off the court, 5-0. U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer and ex-Champion Frank Parker breezed through their singles matches with the loss of just one set; National Doubles Champions Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy just squeezed out an 8-6 fifth...
Heat-proof Bos. Indian cattle, descended from the tropical Bos indicus instead of from the European Bos taurus, are better cooled. Their loose, hanging skins give them more cooling surface. Their hides are thick, and their hair is an efficient insulator...