Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agreed, after consultation with West European representatives, to supply the proposed six-nation European atomic pool with whatever U.S. technical aid and nuclear fuel is necessary to help build a massive (15 million-kw.) atomic-power industry in Western Europe by 1967. Among the U.S.'s objectives in pledging such fabulous support: an increase in Western Europe's "solidarity," a decrease in its dependence on foreign fuel, particularly from the Middle East...
...support France pulled out all the propaganda stops. From his remote hospital in French Equatorial Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prizewinner for 1952, fired off a letter urging President Eisenhower to uphold the French position. In 31 U.S. newspapers there appeared a full-page ad, sponsored by nine European and Canadian newspapers, carrying the text of a Le Figaro article ominously warning the U.S. not to make France choose "between her African vocation and her American friendship...
Above and beyond that, Pineau said France has vast and beneficent plans not only for Algeria but for all its African territories. Said he: "On the day when the [European] Common Market . . . has been created, [France] would like to promote the formation of a Eurafrican whole. Europe in. its entirety, bringing to Africa its capital and its techniques, should enable the immense African continent to become an essential factor in world politics...
...more than a month the 19 squad members have been hailed as heroes of democracy as well as sport. On a European tour when revolution broke out at home, they played out their scheduled games and then, defying orders to return to Hungary, flew to Brazil to take on Rio's Flamengo squad (TIME, Jan. 28). Crowds of 100,000-plus turned out for the games, and the Honved team lived well on its $10,000 per match...
Much of the "paraphernalia" of modern educational practice should be done away with, Commager said. Large scale athletic programs, formal courses, grades, and many other costly and time consuming operations should be forsaken infavor of a self-educational approach, involving a more European attitude towards the learning process, he asserted...