Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE George C. Marshall announced his monumental plan for post-war European recovery at Harvard's 1947 commencement, he was taking a risk. He gambled that his appeal to America's enlightened self-interest would overcome the reluctance of a public whose sentiments were increasingly averse to economic commitments abroad. Today, 40 years later, West German President Richard von Weizsacker will take his place on the steps of Memorial Church to address the Class of 1987. His presence reflects the enduring success of Marshall's plan...
...only did the Plan achieve its immediate aim of stabilizing Western Europe against potential incursions by radical political movements--especially Soviet--supported communist parties--it also created frameworks for European economic cooperation and the Atlantic Alliance. Yet today the Plan's legacy has been all but exhausted. European economic strength has not led to diplomatic unity or military independence, and Marshall's capital-intensive recovery strategy has been misapplied with disastrous results in the Third World...
...would be the first step toward a politically unified continental Europe. He envisioned French leadership of a continental federation, with a reunited and disarmed Germany serving as a buffer between East and West. Britain would join with Canada and the U.S. in an allied but separate political coalition. Eastern European states would be wooed into the neutral continental center, so the tripolar division would stabilize the international system and serve as a buffer in any East-West confrontation...
...expert on the history of the Holocaust this week challenged the selection of the president of West Germany as Commencement speaker saying the European statesman has systematically lied in defense of his father who was a chief diplomat for Nazi Germany...
...courageous and magnificent speech standsas one of the great political and moral statementsof recent European history," Geyser UniversityProfessor Henry Rosovsky said at the time of theannouncement...