Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snowed under in the April 18 elections. Only slightly more than half of the Italian electorate has heard about Western Union; most who have are in the upper-and middle-income groups. Moreover, it has been made no great issue in the Italian election campaign. Yet the survey does show, at the very least, that a popular basis for closer union exists today...
What if Western Union involves a common currency? The mutual abolition of tariffs? The free movement of workers from one country to another, as jobs may be available? In the survey, a majority of Europeans with opinions declare that they are ready for such limitations on national sovereignty. Enthusiasm varies, country by country, on these points: Frenchmen (whose tradition is to stay at home) are not quite so willing to open the doors to migrant foreign labor as Italians (whose tradition includes working abroad). Britons are not so anxious to merge the pound sterling with continental currencies; they are reluctant...
...subject of freedom was not academic. In these and other countries of the West it was still possible for ordinary men and women to discuss freedom out loud. TIME planned to include one other European country in the survey, but at the last moment it turned out to be impossible to ask such questions in Czechoslovakia this spring...
...Conducted for TIME, under the supervision of Elmo Roper, by local survey organizations in Britain, France, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy. U.S. military government authorities made available the results of a comparable survey in the U.S. Zone of Germany...
...compared with 86% of U.S. adults who have heard of the Marshall Plan (according to a current Roper Survey), the international survey found the following numbers familiar with the plan abroad: France, 90%; Sweden, 85%; Britain and Switzerland, 80%; Italy, 74%; U.S. Zone of Germany...