Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus was written off-or indefinitely postponed-what many had hoped would be the chief long-range result of U.S. aid to Western Europe. The OEEC turned its back on European integration to face a less important but more urgent task: how to become independent...
...treaty will go into effect, for 20 years, when a majority of the signers have ratified. The framers of the pact labeled it a defensive alliance, permitted by Article 51 of the U.N. Charter. Western Europe had been eager to learn the extent of U.S. military commitment, in case one or more of the pact nations should be attacked by "an aggressor." The commitment (Article Five) provides that if one or more of the treaty nations should be attacked by an aggressor, each of the others will, individually or collectively, take whatever measures it deems necessary against the aggressor "including...
...Congress includes Greece, Turkey and some Latin American states, as well as the Atlantic nations. Estimated overall cost to the U.S. (in addition to Marshall Plan economic aid): $1.5 to $2 billion. The cost-and the risk-of the pact was more than balanced by the feeling of Western cohesion, the assurance that peace of the Atlantic community was indivisible...
...bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed on to form centers of Western thought in the Greek Orthodox state...
...Real Culprit." The 15 Protestant pastors who sat in Sofia's courtroom accused of espionage and black-marketeering (TIME, March 7) were the spiritual descendants of the same U.S. missionaries. As their trial wore on, it became plain that the pastors were being tried solely because of their Western traditions and connections. The Communist prosecutor, his witnesses and even the defendants' lawyers joined in denouncing "American imperialism as the real culprit on trial...