Word: nationalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From your article about Henry Kissinger [Feb. 14], I quote: "What remains constant is his concern with the fundamental uses of strength. The U.S. has not quite grasped an axiom that European statesmen had long ago mastered: peace is not a universal realization of one nation's desires, but a general acceptance of a concept of an 'international order...
...American statesmen since 1776 have built a great nation, have preserved it, have decided two immense victories in wars caused by European statesmen's errors or appalling deficiencies. The U.S. conceived the League of Nations and the U.N., and preserved the very existence of the most important European nations, both in World Wars I and II and after...
TIME'S Letters to the Editor columns generally contain a sampling of comment from the nation's college campuses. Students write in to praise stories, to criticize them, to offer some observation of their own. Every spring, however, the college mail increases markedly as TIME'S popularity on the campus is reflected by the growing number of students who want to become campus representatives for the next school year. The job offers a chance to earn money and experience selling Time Inc. publications at special student rates, and it often means extra work assisting in marketing surveys...
...dream of a new harmony in Europe has faded unborn. "Three grand visions of the future have at various times captured the political imaginations of various of our leading men," Harvard Professor Francis Bator wrote late last year in the Brookings Institution's Agenda for the Nation: "Jean Monnet's united Western Europe; the Atlantic Community, and, least congenial to most, some scheme of U.S.-Soviet disengagement in Europe which would allow the unification of Germany. It is now clear that none of these three visions is about to be fulfilled...
...goes on to ask: "Is there some other vision which will do? I believe not. The truth is, there does not exist today a design which will resolve the underlying problems and hence command the allegiance of a large majority of Western Europeans." In this formless Continent of independent nation-states, Nixon's advice to Americans seems apt. "The shape of Europe's future is essentially the business of the Europeans," the President has said. "What we need is not more proclamations and declarations, but a greater attention to what our allies think...