Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris, where the 16 Marshall-Plan nations had created an Organization for European Economic Cooperation, a Committee on Methods worked on import needs, scheduled a report to OEEC's Council on May 10. German experts arrived to advise on meshing Western Germany into the European economy...
...gather to talk it over. No government has sponsored their meeting, but hundreds of British and French publicists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, will attend. Some of them have a precise objective: to rouse so much backing for a U.S.E. that, by fall, delegates can assemble to draft a Western European constitution...
Piecemeal Approach. "Western Union" was one of the commonest phrases for the unity which men were trying for in 1948. The phrase was Ernie Bevin's. He had floated it out on the air in January, without ever quite defining it. A fortnight ago at a private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification...
Military coordination would come first, because the time was short and the compulsion (fear of aggressive Communism, sharpened by the coup in Czechoslovakia) was powerful. Said a Frenchman last week: "Stalin's greatest service to humanity is that he has driven Western Europe to rationalization." Some good observers thought that military cooperation, extending to virtual military fusion of The Five, would be a fact by year...
Defense or Liberation? If war came, would the U.S. fight in Western Europe? The Europeans are uncertain about that. Harry Truman's St. Patrick's Day speech to Congress, which implied a promise of military help, was not enough for them. Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak appeared shortly in Washington and asked for a definite commitment. It was not forthcoming. Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans...