Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U.S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications...
...while the people of Europe made the most of the precious days of peace, the U.S. and the world were primarily interested in what Europe's statesmen were thinking, planning and doing. Today the U.S. and the world are more interested in what the people of Western Europe are thinking. What the Italian voters do in their April 18 elections, for instance, is far more important than almost anything a Western European statesman might do at this time...
Therefore, in the story, Europe in the Spring, in this issue's International section TIME'S editors have been fortunate in having some fresh material available for background on what Western Europeans are thinking about questions of freedom & regimentation, war & peace, hope & despair. This material is part of the international survey of public opinion I discussed here six weeks ago. As many of you will recall, the findings of this survey were to be a basis for discussion by world spokesmen at an international forum on "The Future of Freedom" co-sponsored by TIME and New Orleans...
...bill as passed included some cockleshells: $463 million for China; $275 million for Greek-Turkish military aid. But the ark itself was a $5.3 billion appropriation for the next twelve months. More would probably be voted later. The U.S. was committed to aiding 16 nations and Western Germany for the next four years-altogether the greatest undertaking of its sort in history...
Cursed Man. ECA's administrator would not have a star to steer by. He would not be able to navigate by orthodox economic rules. ECA's money would finance roughly one-half of all Western Europe's imports next year. European governments, many of them socialistic, would expect him to continue artificially propping up their present living standards as a wall against Communism. Said a Washington official: "He will be a cursed...