Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment observations. To begin with, he had been surprised that both Congress and the press had taken the unilateral British decision to resume nonstrategic trade with Peking (TIME. June 10) with such equanimity. Since he is personally more or less in sympathy with the British position that the European front is the really important one in the cold war, he deemed it reasonable that trade restrictions on Red China-growing out of the Korean war-need no longer be tougher than restrictions on Russia. Said one White House staffer: "Let's face it. Behind the President's remarks...
Among the politicians themselves, in France's third week without a government, there emerged at last a desire to end the crisis. Politicians of the left and center, bickering among themselves, became aware of a common peril. By delaying the formation of a government, anti-European groups in the Assembly, ranging from Gaullists through tax-dodging Poujadists to Communists, hoped to postpone the scheduled June 14 ratification of the Common Market and Euratom treaties...
...week began Pierre Pflimlin, member of the M.R.P. Catholic center party and a good European, had tried to form a Cabinet devoted to lacing France into a "financial corset" of austerity. Conservative Independent Paul Reynaud told him: "Your program is tragically insufficient. I would even say it is not serious." The Conservatives would just as soon delay until a new election was forced, scenting that they might pick up some of the 37 seats now held by the discredited Poujadists. The Socialists, whose votes Pflimlin next solicited, were not anxious to face their electoral supporters at this month...
...ended the war with the rank of colonel and a chestful of medals, including the Compaction de la Libération (held by only 600 living Frenchmen). A Deputy since 1946. he has served in a dozen Cabinets, holding such portfolios as Finance. Interior and Defense. A strong pro-European who quit the Mendés-France Cabinet in 1954 after the defeat of EDC, he has been fighting Mendés-France ever since within the Radical Socialist Party. The chief architect of Suez intervention, he is 100% behind the muscular Algerian policy...
...victorious U.S. troops found the art treasures in the Austrian salt mines and returned them to Munich. A few years later, more than 200 of the Alte Pinakothek's best paintings went on an extended European tour, to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels. Then 450 of its best works went on permanent exhibition in the Hitler-built Haus der Kunst, while the old building, its true home, was only a dismal rendezvous for petty gangsters and furtive lovers. When plans got underway to clean up the ruin and replace it with a technical university, a groundswell of impassioned opposition pushed...