Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the presently stalemated fragility, the proposals to form a united neutral Germany, and perhaps a neutral Central European bloc, have been voiced with increasing frequency. These proposals are predicated on what appears to be the reasonable belief that although Russia would like to communize Europe, allied strength will dissuade her from taking any step which would result in annihilation. The United States nuclear arsenal would guarantee the buffer region...
...relaxing, it is not intolerable. The territorial status quo has been preserved for a decade, and meanwhile an apparently healthy integration of the German Federal Republic into Western Europe is now taking place. This may prove to be one of the most significant transitions of the era. Any Central European bloc would interrupt this integration. The Common Market, the Euratom plan and any further developments would be curtailed. The unification of Germany ought not to tear away the Federal Republic formally from the West until the cultural and economic ties have thoroughly permeated...
From London Diefenbaker flew to a whirlwind day in Paris, chiefly spent with Premier Charles de Gaulle, hopped on to Bonn and a brisk handshake from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. To both he expressed concern that the six-nation European Common Market might shut out Canadian farm products; e.g., in 1957, 30% of Canada's exported wheat went to these six countries. He indicated Canada could not agree to De Gaulle's proposed French-British-U.S. NATO triumvirate. After Rome this week, Diefenbaker will head to Pakistan, part of the Commonwealth he hopes to galvanize...
Last spring, John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, gave a similar series at the University of Warsaw. "Poland has been the most liberal East European country in inviting Western educators to teach there," MacKenzie commented...
...followed, giving rise to Rose Macaulay's frequent literary treatment of the struggles of the free spirit against rigid mores. The witty, bloodless, polished writer that emerged was-in words she used to describe a character in Staying With Relations-"ironic, amused, passionless, detached, elegantly celibate . . . a traveled European, a bland mocker, a rather mincing young gentlewoman...