Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to a later question on what action Frace and Britain might take if the U.N. failed to achieve these ends, Gaitskell said this might indicate that the limit of U.N. effectiveness had been reached and said "diplomatic, economic and other methods" might be employed by the European powers...
...leader of the British Labor Party, in his second Godkin Lecture at Sanders Theatre discussed weaknesses in both NATO and the Soviet bloc, and then put forth his plan for a wide neutral bloc composed of Germany and the satellites as part of "a comprehensive European security plan, in which the various states in the neutral zone would have their territories guaranteed by the great powers as well as by each other...
Gaitskell concluded his lecture by discussing possibilities for closer European unity, saying that Britain should favor some closer ties with the Continent so long as they do not interfere with her commitments to the Commonwealth, her more liberal colonial policy, and her "special relationship with the United States...
...been working too hard under artificial light," according to one of his friends, he has more or less given up dancing, which used to be one of his favorite relaxations. His recent writings have consisted primarily of party pamphlets, although he has begun a book on modern European socialism, which, he says, "I've had to put on the shelf for the time being...
...opposed any increase in U.S. oil production, maintained that the stocks above ground are ample to supply Europe. Last week the independents won an all-out victory before the Texas Railroad Commission, which sets quotas for the Texas fields (source of 45% of all U.S. oil). Despite the rising European demand, the Commission refused the pleas of big oil companies, which buy much of their oil from independents, to boost production. January output will be held to 16 producing days, an average of 3.4 million bbls. daily for the month...