Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's answer to the challenge facing the free world!"-so President Harry Truman had trumpeted at its birth in April 1948. In a tremendous twelvemonth, EGA had primed the pump of European recovery, pushed ahead through Communist attacks and sabotage, plucked 270 million people from the brink of chaos and despair. By all this it had added immeasurably to the chances of the U.S. and the world for enduring peace and prosperity. In the words of its chief, ECAdministrator Paul Gray Hoffman, it was on the way to proving itself "the best bargain the American people ever bought...
...murals, for which he is most famed, are often as vast as novels, while the paintings of most of his contemporaries are short stories at best. Among Rivera's own mural-painting countrymen, none can match either his native drive or his European-trained virtuosity...
Perhaps the most important aspect of the treaty is that, if ratified by the Senate, it will be an official end to American isolationism. The European Recovery Program acknowledged only a temporary interest by the United States in European prosperity. The Pact, however, states that an armed attack against any signer of the Pact "shall be considered an attack against them all." This is the assurance our nation gives to the peoples of Europe that the United States will not again sit by and watch them succumb to aggression...
...constitutes an act of aggression. Secretary of State Acheson has said that a purely internal revolution is not aggression, but if that revolution is obviously promoted by a foreign power, it is aggression. This is a difficult borderline doctrine. Another problem is to strike the essential balance in channelling European economy between recovery and rearment. A major purpose of the Pact is to relieve small nations of overburdening war expenditure. It would be disastrous if Pact Mutual defeat plans induced an african spirt which overshadowed recovery...
...spite of Russian propaganda, the Pact is a purely defensive alliance. The hope for peace through the Pact comes from the promise that it will stabilize the European political scene. The Pact draws a clear line between East and West. Each side knows that crossing that line will bring would disaster. Antagonism, may, therefore, lose its value, and the door to cooperation through the UN can be opened. The Pact is the means to this end, and the end must never be forgotten in a struggle to strengthen the means...