Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power. She is becoming an island once more. She is tiptoeing out of a political system built in Europe around NATO." Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury called reliance on atomic arms a "facile policy," and not one for France, which prefers to think there will always be conventional wars. (European nations worried by British troop withdrawals from Europe can always lighten their fears by making good the deficiencies in their own troop commitments to NATO.) In West Germany, which inducted its first 10.000 draftees last week, Konrad Adenauer seized the occasion to demand atomic weapons for his own army (Germany...
...flies from Amsterdam only to Frankfurt) and into and beyond Surinam and The Netherlands Antilles (Pan American already flies to the Antilles). But U.S. carriers belittle such concessions, point out that air traffic between the U.S. and the Antilles is light, and that Amsterdam offers little opportunity for extra European traffic...
...each European nation's growing realization of probable obliteration in nuclear war and the helplessness of conventional defense against such weapons, they are being realistic, perhaps, but also possibly parochial. If each nation were to regard its protection in terms of its own needs, rather than those of the total free world, we might have a peculiar form of isolationism: each nation crouched behind--not geographic--but nuclear boundaries and refusing the less destructive but more practical use of conventional forces. Britain has a very real faith in the power of nuclear deterrents, yet the road of preventive armament...
...with Britain in Cyprus, the French in Algeria are trying to create a favorable atmosphere for negotiations by ending violence, although the very methods which suppress violence serve to perpetuate hatreds. The Algerian situation is complicated by the presence of 1,000,000 European residents in a nation of 10 million; they are Frenchmen who have made Algeria their home, done much to develop it as a country. If there had been a proportionate number of British in India when the British pulled out in 1947, it would have been necessary to evacuate or leave behind 34 million people...
...FARE BOOST of 5% will go into effect on all North Atlantic flights beginning May 1, if U.S. and West European governments approve. Transatlantic lines want fare increase to offset salary hikes, higher fuel costs due to Suez crisis...