Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European medicine has contributed modern surgery, bacteriology, antibiotics, tranquilizing drugs; Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in medicine three times within a ten-year period. And most American professors received their specialty training in Europe. All this from "diploma mills...
...bulk of the mighty Soviet and Chinese members, and ruin his relations with the West. But a new Communist International in which all the satellite countries were autonomous would give Tito a powerful seniority, perhaps even tab him as political and ideological straw boss of some of the European satellites, and at the same time provide an excuse for Khrushchev to crush the opposition faction. Properly done to emphasize Tito's strength and independence, this might conceivably even please the West...
...Washington, Adenauer's speech caused scarcely a ripple. As U.S. official dom saw it, the Chancellor had simply restated some harmless truisms about U.S.-European relations. Some European diplomats, however, were bewildered by the speech, felt that Adenauer was altering his own stout stand against a foreign policy of neutralism, a policy he had so long disdained with the comment: "One cannot sit between two chairs...
When West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rose to address a Catholic congress in Brussels last week, his audience expected to hear nothing more than an innocuous tribute to the ideal of European unity. What it got was something stronger. Said Adenauer: "In the long run, the European countries cannot fully develop their great energies ... if they continue to find their salvation and security exclusively through the patronage of the United States . . . What are vital necessities for the European countries do not always have to be vital necessities for the U.S., and vice versa; from this fact may result differences...
...clash over "legitimate newsgathering rights" resulted last week in a decision by U.S., Canadian and European newsreel and TV film groups to boycott the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. The newsreelers wanted to use up to nine minutes a day of footage filmed by their own cameras. But the Australians refused, fearing that the edge would be taken off commercial resale of Olympics movies. Instead, they offered to hand out three minutes of their own film daily to all comers. The film pool resented being limited to a handout, announced that they would make no movies of the Olympics...