Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's voice, if it is to be powerful among the masses of people, must do more than talk of the glories of democracy. We must show the way with practical programs of social reconstruction. The European Recovery Program serves that end; and so does the China Aid Act, at least in part...
...European statesmen gloomy over the prospects of Western Union came news last week which in the long run would weigh heavily in the balance of power and peace. While the U.S. Congress still debated the issue, a majority of Americans had come to believe that their country should form an entangling alliance with Western Union. The Gallup poll reported that 65% were now in favor of U.S. military guarantees to Western Europe. Those were sentiments and opinions. But the Russians could understand them, or a Frenchman, or even a man from Mars...
...longtime professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris, Maritain has lectured at top European universities (Oxford, Heidelberg, Louvain, Milan). The fall of France found him on the U.S. university lecture circuit (Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton). He settled down to a Greenwich Village exile, walked daily to mass at old St. Joseph's, consumed quantities of peanuts and ginger ale, and held a Sunday salon frequented by savants and celebrities. Said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Maritain [belongs] to that small company of great spirits in any age from whom one may learn...
...Alumni Exercises at 2 o'clock, George Rublee '90, President of the Alumni Association, will preside, and President Conant, Governor Bradford, and the honorary degree winners will give addresses. Last year's Exercises heard Secretary Marshall first expound his world-famous Plan for European recovery...
Although French archaeologists have recently dug up considerable quantities of stone tools and weapons, the Bryan-Movius expedition will mark the first time that a geologist and an archaeologist have teamed up in this region in an effort to relate prehistoric remains of a western European race to a definite period in the history of the world...