Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish Finance Minister Hasan Polat-kan came to hammer out the precise uses to which inflation-ridden Turkey will put the $359 million in aid it has been promised by the U.S. and the members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. He was rewarded with the grant of an immediate $75 million to finance vitally needed imports...
Because Tanganyika's 95,000 Asians and Arabs and its 25,000 Europeans (chiefly British and Greek) comprise only 1.5% of the territory's population of 8,800,000, the British wisely made no attempt to maintain absolute white supremacy as European settlers had tried to do in neighboring Kenya and the Central African Federation. Instead, in a bid for racial harmony, the British allotted each constituency three council seats, one for each of the three major racial groups -Asian, European and African. Every voter, regardless of his color, voted for his choice in all three seats...
...statistics are revealing. The most popular courses in terms of enrollment were American Literature Since 1920, Aspects of the Impressionistic Novel, Modern Poetry, and European Intellectual History of the 19th Century, in that order. This subject-matter sounds less than esoteric for a good normal school...
...ministers-were busily evangelizing Latin America in a Protestant movement that is reaching major proportions. Protestant missionaries face the spears of Ecuador's Auca Indians; they educate-and influence-Catholic children squeezed from parochial schools by the continent-wide shortage of classrooms; they befriend the thousands of bewildered European and Asian immigrants who arrive each year only to run up against the language-barricaded snobbery of many Latins...
Died. Lieut. General John C. H. Lee, U.S.A. (ret.), 71, General Eisenhower's chief supply officer in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, who implemented the fabulous air and sea operation that kept U.S. troops on the Continent supplied with food and the material of war; of a coronary occlusion; in York, Pa. After the war, hard-driving "Courthouse" Lee commanded the Mediterranean Theater from headquarters in Italy, survived loud accusations in the press that he abused his authority by inflating rank's privileges. Following his retirement in 1947, Lee became active among the laity...