Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handled in the coal fields and steelworks of the Ruhr. In Paris four European airlines-Air France, Alitalia, Belgium's Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership in a European union...
...Today you look in vain for European 'enthusiasm,' " says an official of the West German government. "What is gradually emerging is something more subtle and more durable: a European consciousness...
...Euratom. Last week Euratom formally indicated its intention to build six nuclear reactors designed to provide the Six with 1,000,000 additional kilowatts of electricity by 1963. And in the spanking new Common Market headquarters on Brussels' aptly named Avenue de la Joyeuse Entree, Walter Hallstein, the German law professor who presides over the Common Market executive, could point to solid progress. Already the Common Market's European Investment Bank (capital: $1 billion) had made its first loans. Others of Hallstein's 1,000-odd employees were busily working out common tariffs and establishing procedures...
...Perhaps it's common sense to do it this way because we are dealing with conservative forces." And by capturing the conservatives, advocates of European unity have destroyed the most effective argument against them-the charge that a man cannot be a good European and a French or German patriot at the same time...
Besides, the original dream is not dead; it is only seen to be more evolutionary, just as the German nation ultimately emerged out of the North German customs union. And even such an ardent supranationalist as Monnet is now inclined to believe that a European federation, if it comes, will spring from a gradual change in the habits, tastes and prejudices of Europe's peoples. It no longer takes the huffing of a Stalin or the threats of a Khrushchev to make Western Europeans unite naturally...