Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...institution of the "Nazi-time." Yes, it was, but there is only one difference. In the years 1933-45 only a dew Germans knew of this institutions and nearly no Germans knew what happened there, but now all men in the Eastern part of Germany and in the Western too know, that more than 16 concentration-camps with more than 80,00 inhabitants exist in the Russian zone and yet another difference, the whole mankind was terrified about the abominations in this camps but this was only a fly to an elephant, what happens now. Nearly to men died...
...Secretary of State George Marshall could now feel that a real move had been made toward securing the U.S.'s southern flank. Now he could-and must-turn back to a Western Europe that faced Russia on much closer terms. The following afternoon he stood up abruptly. "I have to return to Washington," he said; ". . . the pressure of important matters there demands my return ... I leave with a feeling that we have met in an atmosphere of genuine cooperation." Then he was gone...
...morsel is recognizable to men who, first, think of their national welfare in terms of a civilized inheritance, and second, think of the world itself as "a province of the Kingdom of God." In his view, it is, for example, of minor importance that the old apartment house of Western Europe has recently collapsed: what matters is that Christendom has found a newer, physically stronger home on the North American continent...
...Toynbee warns, it would be absurd for us to imagine that this transoceanic shift of the Western-Christian heritage is likely to ensure "Western ascendancy" for very long. Political unification of the world "in the near future" is, he thinks, a "foregone conclusion," and once it is achieved, orthodox Christianity will be as old-fashioned as "parish-pump politics." Our descendants, as well as the descendants of our Oriental contemporaries, will be heirs to a religion and a civilization distilled from the teachings of many spiritual messiahs, including Confucius, Socrates, Christ, Buddha, Zarathustra and Mohamed...
This world unification may begin with violence (in the way, say, that Bismarck forcibly united the German states) or it may emerge from a compromise between the free enterprise of Western Christendom (the U.S.) and the totalitarian economy of the Byzantine orthodoxy (the U.S.S.R.). Only one thing can now prevent one world, says Toynbee: the destruction of all our major civilizations by the atom bomb...