Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People's Father. This is Nehru's first trip to the U.S., although he has traveled much and is no stranger to Western ways. A man who likes to wear a Homburg, Nehru has preferred Western dress since his British schooldays (Harrow as well as Cambridge). This preference is one of the contradictions which once made him write of himself: "I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere...
...Western intellectual in Nehru grows impatient and often irritable over dependence. The East in him responds intuitively. Emotionally, he plays to the hilt the role of father to his people...
...Western German elections in August found nearly all the candidates plugging away at "German National Rights" as their campaign issue. The election also featured groups of uniformed bully boys which the press euphemistically called "splinten parties"; the wrapping was different but the contents were the same. U.S. students in Europe this summer heard Germans parrot the same phrase again and again: "Hitler was all right; he did us a lot of good...
...Western Europe suffered a major invasion this summer. As soon as American schools and colleges lot down their bars in June, students started swarming across the Atlantic by the thousands, looking for culture, education, and other things...
...soft coal miners left the pits in what the UMW called a "spontaneous" walkout. The immediate reason given for the walkout was the default on fund payments by the Southern operators and the new slogan, "no welfare, no work," was conceived. The walkout, however, included the Northern and Western mines which sent their regular monthly payment of $3,000,000 to the Fund on September...