Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PARIS, Dec. 15--President Eisenhower, on the eve of NATO's summit conference, opened the way a little wider for European acceptance of American nuclear missiles to bolster the alliance's front lines against the Soviet threat...
...Paris the NATO Council, acting on premature reports that there was no possibility of Ike's attendance at the Prime Ministers' meeting expressed'"satisfaction" that "Vice President Nixon would lead the U.S. delegation," and voted to go ahead with the conference as planned. But privately, European members of the Council admitted that they had done so partly to give the lie to Soviet propaganda that the NATO allies are nothing but U.S. satellites. "If Premier Menderes of Turkey were taken ill," said one delegate, "we could hardly postpone the meeting. Nor can we decently do so because...
...Algerian Moslems have been killed in France and more than 2.000 wounded, victims of other Algerian Moslems. [In Algeria itself] between Nov. 1, 1954 and Nov. 1, 1957, the rebels murdered 8,429 civilians, of whom 310 were women and 120 children. This tragic picture includes 1,126 European victims and 7,030 Moslems...
...proportion of Moslems killed by those who claim they are fighting on behalf of the Algerian people is, therefore, approximately seven Moslems to one European. If any conclusion is to be drawn from these figures, it is that the rebellion does not enjoy spontaneous support from Moslems. The F.L.N. relies more on totalitarian methods than the support it might get from public opinion...
...nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) these countries protested because common market plans to eliminate tariffs on imports from its own members' overseas territories, but maintain steep tariffs on other imports. Thus, French and Belgian territories in Africa would get much of the brisk European tea, coffee and cocoa trade now dominated by India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana...