Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this uniting-Europe mood, the six Prime Ministers also agreed on the establishment of Euratom, a European Atomic Energy Community. A supranational council will hold title to all fissionable materials possessed by the Six. save those reserved for military use. With the aid of the U.S., which has already agreed to supply technical advice and nuclear fuel, Euratom's planners hope to be producing 3.000,000 kw-h of electricity annually by 1963. This would carry Western Europe into the age of atomic power just about as fast as the Soviet Union (whose hoped-for goal...
Attitudes: Supporter of the Atlantic Alliance and European unity, maintains that if the U.S. had had troops in Europe in 1939 as it has now, there would have been no World War II. In 1954, elected president of Euro pean Assembly in Strasbourg. Sound but not brilliant speaker, consistent but not spectacular political leader...
...Time for Masking. For all Dior's success, Paris couture in general is in parlous economic shape. Eastern European markets (except for exiled royalty) have dried up. Currency and import restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays...
Strijdom has publicized his plan to build new schools, "tribal colleges," for blacks and whites. But the estimated Government subsidization for the white colleges more than triples that for the Africans. Moreover, the curricula imposed on the "African" schools prohibits blacks from being admitted to European (Continental) universities. The policy of rigid educational segregation does not merely separate cultures; it serves to keep the African blacks socially, academically, and economically inferior. To insure white supremacy, Strijdom is determined to make it impossible for blacks to improve their status...
...heads of the governments of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg have acted to keep Western Europe from becoming an anachronism. Their agreement upon two treaties, creating a European Common Market and a European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), is an important step toward the unity Europe needs to maintain a significant role in world power politics. A compartmentalized Western Europe has been losing economic and political stature beside Russia and the United States...