Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urging of the President, approved the $1,314,000,000 appropriation for military aid to Western Europe and other nations...
...Western Europe's harvest was almost in. In the rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...
These proposals make good sense economically, politically, and morally. The DP's being kept in camps in Western Germany are a great financial liability, and further complicate the political situation in that nascent country. If we accept our fair share of these victims of changing boundaries, as our government has repeatedly promised, they will become self-supporting; they will not, as various veterans' groups have complained, push vets out of jobs, since each DP must have a position waiting before he arrives...
...unload some of its population into more productive work elsewhere, the Occupation and the Austrian government are reconstructing its old magnificence for what can only be a minor role in the future. The thousands of refugees who field the city and the Russians in 1945 have returned from the Western zones...
...though the vestiges are there. the Germans made their last stand against the Russians on the Danube so that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their own. A Viennese girl said...