Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That was the best presentation I've heard from the American side in the three years we've been going." Secretary Acheson would like to have a whole task force of roving negotiators like Philip Jessup...
Flowing Hope. Its success, witness after witness asserted, could not, and should not be measured in economic terms alone. The impact of EGA, said Secretary Acheson, had altered "the political atmosphere of an entire continent." Added W. Averell Harriman, ECA's European ambassador: "Hope, and the will to resist tyranny, were ebbing in Europe in 1947. They are flowing again today. It is this-the will to live as free men and to go forward toward a future which, while it cannot be precisely foreseen, can yet be believed in-which has arrested the spread of reactionary Communist aggression...
...factories was up to prewar level and 14% above 1947. Exports were up 20% over last year's. Electric power output and freight traffic, despite all of war's dislocations, were now far above prewar levels. Said Hoffman: "This is the time to hit hard for European recovery-time for the Europeans to take drastic and sometimes painful steps necessary for real recovery, time for the U.S. to back their efforts to the full...
...from Evelyn Waugh (published in Britain in 1947*) reads like a malicious parody of his good ones. It is the story of a middle-aged teacher of the classics who happens to become (through some "blood-brotherhood in dimness") the greatest living authority on an obscure 17th Century Central European poet named Bellorius. On the Bellorius Tercentenary, Scott-King is invited to Simona, a city in Neutralia, for the celebration...
Freshman Weekend will bracket two first-year traditions-the freshman play and dance-into one event like the annual Senior Weekend each spring. Proceeds of the weekend will be turned into a fund to enroll a European DP student at Radcliffe next September...