Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invariably gets up at 6:30, often receives early callers in pajamas, works till late into the night. There is much to do. No man in Europe has had a greater part in preparing the way for Western European Union. Says Spaak...
...traditions of hard work, her artistic, intellectual and moral traditions, wants to make herself heard, she must organize. Men are ready to accept this idea of organization, but they find it difficult to execute because they have not always the necessary courage to accept sacrifices. Those who think of Western Union as a panacea are wrong, terribly wrong, so wrong they will never have the courage to succeed with this policy which is first based on sacrifices...
Spaak's Belgians are no more attracted by sacrifices than other Europeans. Certainly, they have no wish to see their economic standards reduced to those of Western Europe, even if the latter were thereby slightly raised. Rather do they hope that the rest of Western Europe will come up to Belgian standards...
...dollar-short countries like Argentina lay in restoring Europe's capacity to pay for their agricultural produce with the girders, dynamos and machines so badly wanted. Economically, as Walter Lippmann put it, the hemisphere would have to learn to "take its place in the larger community of the Western world...
...last week, the government had given up that hope, was ready to talk turkey. It had watched the formation of "Western Union" (see INTERNATIONAL). From that, it seemed only a logical step to bind those five European countries with the U.S. and Canada in a North Atlantic Union...