Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, that the U.S. will lend the U.N. up to $5,000,000 to help meet the initial costs ($7,000,000 to $10,000,000) of Suez Canal clearance, with repayment "terms and arrangements" to be worked out later. Canada, Australia and six West European nations are expected to advance the rest. Still to come: agreement on a permanent plan to finance the total ($40 million) salvage...
...power as they thought they were. The discovery made some timid Little Englanders decide that the sooner Britain settles down to being a comfortable Sweden or Holland the better, but there were others who were looking for new combinations of strength and finding them in the idea of European unity. A clear and insistent emotional cry for "Europe" was being heard last week in both Britain and France...
...Liberal Party, J. Joseph Grimond, wondered aloud whether Britain would not do better to reduce the Commonwealth to the "white Dominions"-Canada, Australia, New Zealand-and foresaw the day when Britain's economy might "look to Western Europe to give us added strength and wider margins. European unity would then become the major British interest and the foundation of our policy...
...about a "third force," but this time with a difference. In the words of Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, "the third force is not an attempt to neutralize Europe and place her at an equal distance between America and Russia. On the contrary, it expresses the European will to cease being a dead weight upon America and to become a genuine ally, ready to assume a full share of responsibilities...
...criticizing Anglo-French intervention in the Suez, Gaitskell insisted that it was only a "temporary affair, an aberration," which represented no return to colonialism. He pointed to independence granted to British colonies and dominions since the war, and efforts in that direction by France, as evidence that the two European powers were no longer pursuing colonialsim...