Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Europe watched last week's political hoedown with its heart in its mouth. But Europe's politicians were learning that they need not worry much about the tumult and shouting of the U.S. political campaign. If they had learned enough, they watched one man. That man was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...fear of a resurgent Germany, France has a newer and more immediate fear of Russia. A French official summed it up this way: "For the Soviet Union, the strategic situation has changed radically this year. Three things have happened: ERP was voted during a U.S. election year, Western Union began to take shape, the U.S. embarked on a rearmament policy. And one thing has not happened-the U.S. economic crisis, on which the Russians counted. So Russia can no longer figure that time is on her side. If Russia wants at any time to go to war, or if Russia...
...Germany itself last week the Communists, too, knew that the chips were down. They had launched a full-blast propaganda campaign against the plan for Western Germany, crying "Einheit" (unity), a slogan that had long made deep and stirring music to German ears. In the Russian zone they had launched a drive for twelve million German signatures on a petition for an "all-German unity" government. A huge sign in Berlin set forth the Communist case (see cut). It read: "Attention! You are now entering the American sector. American democracy rules there. They want to forbid the will...
...Schuman could see an even blacker cloud on the immediate horizon. The six-power London agreement to set up a provisional Western German government would soon have to be laid before the Assembly for ratification. The Communists, of course, were against it. Maurice Thorez had already called it "a national disaster." And General Charles de Gaulle promised a public statement on the subject before the debate began. That De Gaulle would be critical, there was no doubt. If he were violently critical, Radical and rightist deputies would not vote the ratification...
...Duenna might never be performed again in Russia: its plot is hardly in the acceptable groove, especially after the brisk spanking Russia's composers got last winter for "bourgeois, Western-oriented'' ideas and music...