Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe's guilt is more complex, more subtly expressed, and more easily abused. Its burden is the burden of Western man's whole failure to make more of his life and his world than he has so far made. It rests with especial weight upon the conscience of Europe, because it is here that Western civilization has come to visible and extreme; catastrophe. Europeans may tell themselves, as they do, that the younger peoples of the American hemisphere share the failure. But it is to European eyes that the ruin of Berlin, the chaste and ordered scars...
...Sweden, the influential daily Dagens Nyheter came out with a proposal that neutrality-minded Swedes would not have dreamed of a few months ago-Swedish military cooperation with the Western powers. In Madison, Wis., Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne spoke bluntly: "Peace can always be had-by individuals and nations-by giving in on every point until one is stripped of everything except peace-the peace of the grave. . . . We shall of course stand up against any future aggressor, from wherever he might come. We shall fight with everything we have. . . . Once more we shall prefer...
Masses of Spies? On scant (24 hours) notice the Russians last week bluntly informed the Western Powers that henceforth a new inspection policy would prevail on travel through the Soviet zone which encircles Berlin. Russian officials would board all military trains, inspect passengers and papers, pick over cargoes...
...General Clay had radioed this assurance: "We will sit tight. We will not be provocative. . . . Evacuation to me is unthinkable." At week's end several U.S. and British freight trains got through to Berlin without being challenged. And, finally, the Russians grudgingly agreed to meet with the Western Powers to "clarify" their terms, if not alter them. For a time, it appeared, there would be an uneasy truce-until the Russians probed elsewhere. Patience and firmness had paid off again...
Twice a month, the tribes living in the foothills of the Amne Machin range of western China sing an ode to the mighty peaks above. They sing that Amne Machin is a sacred mountain, holding untold stores of gold. Travelers who tamper with its treasures or its mysteries (says the ode) will provoke divine wrath expressing itself in hailstorms and other calamities...