Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meaning of such figures could be pressed too far. For instance, the fact that only 11% of Italians replying to the question were against Western Union did not mean that the Reds were going to be snowed under in the April 18 elections. Only slightly more than half of the Italian electorate has heard about Western Union; most who have are in the upper-and middle-income groups. Moreover, it has been made no great issue in the Italian election campaign. Yet the survey does show, at the very least, that a popular basis for closer union exists today...
...What if Western Union involves a common currency? The mutual abolition of tariffs? The free movement of workers from one country to another, as jobs may be available? In the survey, a majority of Europeans with opinions declare that they are ready for such limitations on national sovereignty. Enthusiasm varies, country by country, on these points: Frenchmen (whose tradition is to stay at home) are not quite so willing to open the doors to migrant foreign labor as Italians (whose tradition includes working abroad). Britons are not so anxious to merge the pound sterling with continental currencies; they are reluctant...
...British and French surveys, the question was put only to persons who had heard of Western Union. This may partially explain the lower number of "undecideds" in those countries...
Never before have the attitudes and acts of one nation mattered so much to so many people in the world as every impulse, wish and act of the U.S. will hereafter matter to the Western world. Never before have the attitudes and capacities of so many other nations mattered so much to the U.S. What awaits Americans in the Europe which they have undertaken to preserve, restore, and if need be to defend...
...taken. It contradicts all that they had presupposed of the U.S. Congress, which in these parts is expected to do the right thing in the wrong way, if at all. Wrote the Manchester Guardian: "The U.S. has risen to the occasion. It is now for the nations of Western Europe to do no less." But the deepest wish of our friends in Europe is that they did not have to accept...