Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warne, professor of economics at Amherst, spent a good part of his time discussing Poland in particular as he attacked the economic problems in U.S.-Russian relations. Claiming that Europe in general doesn't appreciate the United States, he singled out Poland as a bright spot on the western European scene--a nation not yet completely...
Representatives of ten western European nations signed the charter for a Council of Europe yesterday in London. Agreeing to the charter, which provides for a joint cabinet and parliament, were Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Ireland. London sources reported that Winston Churchill may become the British delegate...
...second argument, and the one which Mr. Acheson is emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming...
None of these arguments is particularly impressive. It is very doubtful whether the strongest possible Western European forces could do much to slow down an invasion from the east; even a completely equipped "Uniforce" would be terribly overmatched by whatever the Russians threw against it. The "Bridgehead" concept is getting more and more antiquated as the pace of modern war picks up; military strategists like to think that if we must fight a war, we should be able to pick a better operating area than historically vulnerable Western Europe...
...mostly economic, rather than military; things should remain this way. There is a great, if psychological, difference between guns and steel. There is a difference between the commitment to help nations when they are attacked, and their indiscriminate arming prior to such attack. The only possible justification for a Western European arms aid program might be a military one, and the military argument is invalid. Outside of this, neither the solidarity of the North Atlantic nations nor the general international situation requiring this solidarity warrants such a program...