Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Europe's Communists moved in on a trend last week. The trend was a backsliding by the crisis-weary people of Western Europe. Judging from its press and politicians, Western Europe wanted peace, right now; a prettily wrapped peace with a money-back guarantee...
...months before, Western Europeans had been in desperate fear of Soviet aggression. They felt then that a North Atlantic Alliance could not come fast enough. They were willing to make the national sacrifices required by Western Union. There was a sweeping urgency, then, in the idea that the West would have to become strong, stand up to Stalin-that Stalin would respect strength and keep the peace...
...series of recent statements and events in the U.S., especially Truman's appointment of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State, led Western Europeans to assume that U.S. policy toward Russia would become softer. The assumption was wispy; nobody knew whether U.S. policy would soften or not. But the European reaction to the assumption was real. Much of the recent stiffness went out of the man-on-the-street's backbone...
...Assembly. In his acceptance speech he went right on from where Cachin had left off-just as the Communists hoped he and millions of others would do. Russia and the U.S., said Herriot, "face each other in helmeted defiance, two Homeric heroes." The implication: their quarrel is not Western Europe's-Western Europe should become a third force that would strive for a reconciliation between the giants...
Only in Great Britain did opinion hold firm that the U.S. was not softening its policy. Yet even in Britain the sense of urgency was diminishing. The North Atlantic Alliance had official backing, but the more difficult problems of Western Union had stopped progress toward that "grand design...