Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closing a Gap. Ollenhauer ended his Bundestag speech by calling for an all-European collective system that would include a reunified Germany. Amid more cheers his military expert, Fritz Erler, spelled out the details of the proposed system: all European countries would join, contributing their own defense forces, subject to joint armaments control, mutual-assistance pacts and nonaggression treaties, with the U.S. and Soviet Russia guaranteeing the whole setup...
...directed chiefly against the U.S., which, if it took in as many refugees in proportion to its size and wealth as has Austria, would have to "admit 500,000 Hungarian refugees instead of 24,000." Most of the 65,000 still in Austria refuse to go on to other European countries, he added, for fear "they will lose their chance of being admitted to the U.S.": under present U.S. law, Hungarians are no longer regarded as refugees once they have left Austria...
With high excitement two U.S. museums this week are celebrating the acquisition of works by a painter who has always been a sound investment-the 17th century master of northern European painting, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. In both cases the prices were even higher than the excitement...
Another solution, say the independents, would be for Europe to import U.S. refined products instead of crude oil. They point out, for example, that U.S. gasoline stocks are at a record 193 million bbls. But European nations have good reasons for not wanting refined products. Gasoline is the least critical item in their oil inventories, and the importation of high-cost refined oil would not only reduce their dollar balances but force layoffs in their own refineries...
...bronze, bigger-than-life statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps. builder of the Suez Canal, stood for 60 years in Port Said. Last December, as Egyptian demonstrators celebrated the withdrawal of the Franco-British invasion force, they expressed their hatred of all things European by blowing up the statue. The great builder would have been neither surprised nor resentful. Irrational violence, betrayal and humiliation dogged him all his long life without dampening his boundless optimism or shaking his firm belief in the essential goodness of man and the basic harmony of nations...