Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited war. It is therefore in the equal interest of the U.S. and U.S. allies to 1) pool scientific and technical resources and brainpower, 2) tighten allied interdependence in command, 3) keep U.S. forces deployed in NATO's airpower and ground-power shield, 4) provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans-"to give reality to the European sense of participation, which is a basic ingredient of the will to resist." And in the final analysis, whenever the U.S. choice lies between "acquiescence" in Communist aggression and acceptance of a split among allies...
Illustrating the "unpredictability" of modern history, Conant described the change in French policy toward Germany. Both French and German parliaments have recently ratified the Saar agreement and proposals leading towards a European Common Market and a European Atomic Authority, although as recently as 1953 the proposed European army failed to be ratified...
...Sputniks he sent whirling into outer space aroused the U.S. giant to its danger as nothing else could have. President Eisenhower, throwing off the effects of a slight stroke, risked health and leadership to journey to Paris and rally NATO to new heart. The U.S.'s European allies brushed aside Russia's threatening letters, joined with the U.S. to face in new unity the psychological pressures built up by the Soviets' scientific breakthrough...
...admission as observers were turned down, as were two Turkoman refugees from the U.S.S.R. But all the Communist nations of Asia were represented in force. So, too, was the Soviet Union, which had dusted off for the occasion its claim to be as much an Asian as a European power...
ALFRIED KRUPP will make bold bid to become Europe's biggest steelmaker, although allies have ordered him to sell off all coal and steel properties by end of 1958. Krupp-owned Rheinhausen Steel Works (capacity: 2,300,000 tons a year) has petitioned European Coal & Steel Community for permission to buy Bochumer Verein works (capacity: 1,560,000 tons). Krupp would pay $30 million to $40 million for Bochumer, which is controlled by his good friend, Swedish Millionaire Axel Wenner-Gren...