Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juniors concentrating in modern foreign languages will be eligible for credit for one year of European study starting next Fall, the Faculty ruled yesterday...
...addition to departmental rulings, the cost of European study may prevent additional students from taking part...
Three arguments have turned up most frequently in support of the program. A group of high officers, including General Omar N. Bradley, have been supporting it from a military angle, claiming that strengthening the treaty countries would give us European bridgehead in case of war, that "abandosing these countries with a promise of later liberation" is militarily unsound. Bradley and his colleagues believe that the arms aid could enable Western Europe to hold on until the U. S. could "funnel in forces...
...second argument, and the one which Mr. Acheson is emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming...
There is no present machinery for granting European study credit...