Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant successes of [Mendes-France's] improvised diplomacy are well known. France has returned to a policy of national Realpolitik on the prewar model, with opportunism its only principle and immediate national advantage its only aim. For those other European nations that have survived the last great attempt at this sort of Realpolitik in the Hitler years, nothing remains except to follow France more or less unwillingly along this path. Perhaps anything is better than the continuation of a mendacious abnegation of responsibility. The "new style" of French diplomacy has the advantage of honesty. Europe has lost nothing...
...three great areas will open up-South America, India and Southeast Asia and China." In Britain itself, where newsprint is still rationed, Sir Eric thinks that demand would soar from 800,000 tons to 2,500,000 tons a year if the papers were to expand to their prewar size. And he is so enthusiastic about U.S. prospects that last week he announced a third paper machine will be added to the Calhoun plant, making it the biggest newsprint mill in the South...
...This depressing fact emerged from a housing survey published last week by the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe. Wartime losses-some 10 million European homes-have not yet been made up. In many countries, the number of dwellings per capita is lower than it was prewar: Greece, by 20%; West Germany, 16%; Italy, 9%; France...
...from the C.I.O. Textile Workers, $2,800 from the British textile workers). Britain's touring Laborites visited the strikers, hailed their "epochmaking fight," indicated firmly that however hopeful they might feel about coexistence with China, there could be none with Japan if the Japanese reverted to a prewar policy of sweated labor and "cheap goods." The conservative government of Premier Yoshida took alarm...
Lady of Beauty, by Kikou Yamata. An aristocratic lady of prewar Japan profiled in a novel as spare and beautiful as Fujiyama at dawn (TIME...