Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour's consultation, he urged French Premier Felix Gaillard, apparently with some success, to take a warmer view of an American offer to put intermediate range missiles and nuclear warheads on the European front facing Soviet Russia...
Informed diplomats said some smaller nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization broadly support the British-American position. At the same time, they added, there is a considerable body of opinion among important European members of NATO, notably West Germany, which favors careful study of the Soviet proposals and which opposed any door-slamming acts by the alliance as a whole to the latest Soviet approaches...
...Washington last week Italy's Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella brought something that is currently in short supply in the U.S.: a new, positive foreign-policy idea. Under a plan advanced by Pella, the U.S. and the 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation would set up a joint fund for easy-term economic development loans to Middle East countries...
...would contribute to the fund the sums that European countries repay on their Marshall Plan loans; European countries would kick in amounts equal to 20% of their repayments to the U.S. Estimated total available: $100 million a year. In addition, private capital would be encouraged to join in. To manage the fund, the Italians suggested a nine-man international board to be chaired by a representative from...
Without quite rejecting the Italian proposal outright, the State Department raised a couple of negative-thinking objections: 1) the Middle East would look upon the fund as an extension of NATO in spite of everything, 2) European countries would be repaying Marshall Plan loans in their own currencies, so the proposed fund would have no dollars; accordingly the Middle East countries would probably use the loans to buy goods and services from Europe, not from...