Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, representatives of the U.S., Britain, France and the Benelux countries have been meeting in London's drafty, sepulchral India House. Their problem sounded simple. Western Germany, with its coal and iron resources, is Europe's industrial heart, on whose soundness the Marshall Plan, and Europe's future, depend. Since the Russians have consistently sabotaged every four-power action that would give Western Germany (or any part of Germany) the political organization and the economic incentive to go to work for Europe's benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves...
...thing, they were afraid of a too powerful Germany. The U.S. and Britain had made concessions: 1) the Ruhr was to be administered by an international board which would see that France and the rest of Europe would get a fair share of Ruhr products; 2) the new Western German government would not be centralized but loosely federalized to prevent it from becoming too strong; 3) military occupation would not end "until the peace in Europe is secured...
...there is any message on Commencement Day of 1948 it is that such a development must not happen. The ideal national course--aid to the actual democratic socialistic parties as well as the present governments of Western Europe--is perhaps too much realistically to hope for faced with our prevailing political temper. A minimum of desirability in United States policy, however, cannot, and must not, be permitted to seem too much to hope for. An overwhelming vote by the House Appropriations Committee should restore the European Recovery grant to its original amount. United action by the House and the Senate...
Yesterday was the big day for '33: an all-day outing at the Western Golf Club and the Class Dinner at the Continental. Today a luncheon in Adams House will precede the parade. The dress will include white trousers in striking uniformity; beyond this the secrecy which is traditionally practiced before the parade to lend suspense shrouds details...
Ethridge pointed to the United States as the "trustees of both the physical and ideological forces of Western civilization." But he declared that we must approach this trusteeship with modesty, with a new stability, a new stability, a new guiding philosophy...