Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this concern with the future military adequacy of the U.S. that caused two senior Cabinet officers to fly to Europe this week for very different kinds of talks. The assignment of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown: to meet in Brussels with America's closest European allies to discuss ways of strengthening NATO. The assignment of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: to confer in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko about a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. The SALT talks could affect the status of U.S.-Soviet relations for years to come...
...event of a European war, the U.S. would be responsible for keeping NATO's forces supplied with arms and munitions. Some materiel and reinforcements could be rushed overseas in massive air transports, like the C-5A Galaxy, which can carry to Europe 345 troops with their personal equipment or a load of sixteen trucks. But most of the gargantuan quantities of supplies required by any future conventional war that are not already prepositioned at depots in Europe will have to be sent by ship. This means that the U.S. Navy will need enough forces to keep the North Atlantic...
...committing themselves to specific policies. Almost to a man, Triffin and his board colleagues were concerned about a rising global trend toward protectionism, which could inhibit the needed expansion of world trade, and a failure to check inflation, which is now running at a rate of 9% in the European Community. They fear that these developments, which can be corrected only by tough and usually unpopular government actions, could turn the London summit into another exercise in empty rhetoric, like its two predecessors in Rambouillet and Puerto Rico. The summit seven did come out against protectionism, and board members note...
...Americans a cleaner, sharper version of themselves, as bright as a new silver dollar, still inventive and vigorous. If, as Historian Frederick Jackson Turner said, the U.S. ran out of frontier in 1890, Lindbergh opened a new frontier in the air - the U.S. arcing back in triumph to its European origins...
Early in 1939, Lindbergh returned to the U.S., now as a preacher. Intervention in the European war, he said at the time, was being promoted by something like a conspiracy of "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt Administration." Relations grew strained with friends and even his in-laws, who favored intervention. His hero's luster dulled. Novelist J.P. Marquand, a friend, explained indulgently, "You've got to remember that all heroes are horses' asses." Lindbergh became the most glamorous evangelist of "America first." Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps...