Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing his famed black beret and crackling with splintery opinions, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein popped into Washington last week. Though his visit was unofficial, Monty, as military chief of Europe's Western Union forces, delivered one deliberate message...
This week Monty was to address the English-Speaking Union in Manhattan, publicly and in more general terms. But the nub of his message was the same: that the West could not allow old rancors to divide it against the greater threat of the East. "Civilization is in danger," he said, "because of a clash between two conflicting moral codes: between Communism and Democracy . . . As a Christian soldier I declare myself an enemy of Communism and all that it stands for. Unless this danger can be held, great trouble lies ahead...
...party protected business against cutthroat domestic competition by granting patents, and against foreign competition by levying tariffs. It won other votes by handouts: land to farmers as free homesteads, Treasury funds to Union soldiers as pensions. It won election after election. "What could you do with a party that had emancipated the slave, saved the Union, given everybody a bounty in land or tariff, assured businessmen of prosperity and poor men of a full dinner pail...
...realizes that this objective is not merely an economic proposition, but that it will take a large measure of political union as well. EGA also realizes that the objective cannot be reached in a few years, and certainly not by 1952, when Marshall Plan aid to Europe ends. But EGA believes that nothing short of full economic integration can boost Western Europe's industrial output enough to end its dependence...
...middle stage between the short-range and long-range objectives would be regional groupings, like the proposed monetary and customs union among Benelux, France, Italy and, eventually, Western Germany...