Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already pulling their weight helping Asian and African members of the Commonwealth. Paris points to last year's $100 million to the French Community's African members. But, bit by bit, Washington's new approach is beginning to have its effect. Under U.S. pressure, the European countries and Japan have agreed to join with the U.S. in setting up the new $1 billion International Development Association (TIME, Oct. 12). And last week, after asking his countrymen "whether we have the right to enjoy all to ourselves the steady annual increase of 6% in our national product," West...
...Mitterrand, who supports negotiations with the F.L.N., narrowly escaped death in the heart of Paris, when unidentified machine gunners riddled his car. Alarmed at last, the government doubled police guards for ministers, offered protection to prominent private citizens, and tightened security around De Gaulle. In Algeria, where European ultras circulated leaflets charging that they had been "betrayed" by "traitors" in France, the army set up roadblocks around Algiers to guard against an invasion of the city by extremist settlers from outlying villages...
...White Highlands are "white" because since 1939 only Kenya's 60,000 Europeans have been allowed to lease farms there-a state of affairs that has constituted a perennial political and psychological affront to the colony's 6,000,000 Africans. The new plan might ease the affront, but even its proponents did not argue that it would admit more than a sprinkling of non-Europeans into the Highlands. As the plan now stands, an African farmer who wanted to move into the Highlands would first have to get financing, then find a European farmer who was willing...
...Power "gentlemen's agreement" of 1946, which guarantees a Security Council seat for an East European nation, is also the agreement that guarantees two Security Council seats for Latin American nations. Although the U.S. maintains that the agreement was valid for only one year, the Latin Americans figured that a vote against Poland would mean certain Soviet-bloc opposition to perpetuation of their two seats. ¶The Latin Americans do not consider the Poland-Turkey contest a big issue even if the U.S. does. Adding Poland to Russia and neutralist Ceylon (which last week replaced Canada on the Security...
...local underground, backed by Castro-hating Cubans in Florida and the Dominican Republic. Giving it another try last week, Castro elevated his leftist, anti-U.S. brother Raúl, 28, to the newly created Cabinet post of Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. Castro arms agents shopped the European markets for rifles, PT boats and Hawker Hunter jets...