Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the big decisions, the joint communique at conference's end 1) reaffirmed joint support for European unity and German unification, 2) reminded the world in general and Dictator Nasser in particular that the U.S. and Britain still stick by the U.N. Security Council's October resolution on the rights of all nations to passage through the Suez Canal, and 3) set forth an unexpected joint declaration on nuclear-weapons tests. As long as Russia continues to block a general disarmament agreement, the communique said, the U.S. and Britain will have to continue "nuclear testing." Meanwhile, they...
...Erhard, West Germany's portly, pink-faced Minister of Economics, had been looking forward to the day when he would fly off to New York to lecture at Columbia University. Almost alone among the men who govern Western Europe Erhard openly doubted the economic wisdom of the proposed European Common Market ("There is no economic sense in creating an island of protection in Europe"). The New York visit, he figured, would give him a fine chance to disabuse Americans of what he considered their excessive enthusiasm for the project...
...more amorphous Eisenhower Doctrine.) Macmillan may seek support for some modification of U.N. procedure so that the great powers will not be so much at the mercy of the Afro-Asian bloc in the General Assembly. He is prepared to discuss Britain's intention to reduce her European defense forces, and he will probably bring up relaxation of the trade embargo with Communist China...
...outsiders have made the effort to try to understand this paradoxical sect of highly organized, missionary-minded mystics, strongest remnant of the great age of Hasidism, that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents the results of a year-long study of the Brooklyn Lubavitchers...
...When Aramco and Saudi Arabian officials got bogged down in a Geneva conference last year, they called on the school for English-Arabic translators to help the negotiators out. In a sense, says Stelling-Michaud, the Geneva alumnus is rapidly becoming the indispensable international man. "In European organizations like the Coal and Steel Community," says he, "the majority of interpreters come from our school. Of some 200 top-class interpreters at work in the world today, at least 20% are Geneva-trained. Sometimes we even get requests to send students who have not even passed their tests to help...