Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scattered Chicks. In the two months since Suez, the drive toward a united Europe has made more progress than in the previous two years. By happy political chance, France's Premier Guy Mollet and Germany's Konrad Adenauer are both dedicated "Europeans" who recently together settled the long-festering problem of the Saar. After months in the hands of the experts, two important new treaties are ready for submission to six Western European nations: one to eliminate internal customs barriers and provide a common market for 160 million people, the other to pool all atomic research and development...
Commented Spaak dryly: "The European nations are something like scattered chicks when they see a hawk hovering above them-whether in the form of Stalin or Nasser-they tend to come together...
Sweden, with an economy dependent on oil for half of all fuel needs (compared with 13% for Britain, and only 9% for Germany), has been harder hit by the Suez shutdown than any other European country. Raw material imports already cost 5% more; the government's budgeted $100 million surplus has turned into a deficit...
...prospects of visits by two European socialist politicos not noted for their friendliness to the Stars and Stripes. West Germany's opposition boss, roly-poly Erich Ollenhauer, definitely planned on conferring with Washington bigwigs next month. In Britain, toned-down Laborite Aneurin Bevan mulled a springtime trip "to study U.S. policy...
...other issues, also, Der Spiegel's cockiness has hardened into habitual choler. The magazine is more often against than for; it opposed NATO, European union, West German rearmament. Augstein's editorials have frequently been critical of "rigid" U.S. foreign policy, but Der Spiegel approved of the U.S. stand on Suez, argued that the more "fluid" U.S. foreign policy that resulted lessened the danger of war and improved the outlook for German reunification...