Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expelled for writing anything that the Communist governments do not like. Under the severe laws governing military and economic espionage, that could be as simple a thing as reporting the amount of money in circulation-or a host of other common facts & figures openly published by the Western democratic press. If a correspondent manages to get the Press Ministry's permission to leave the capital of his country, an official guide is usually assigned to see to it that he sees only favorable things. As a result, much of what happens outside of the Balkans' capitals...
...officially known as "exploratory." The talks proved to be nothing of the kind. Last week, after months of recriminations, bickerings and mutual suspicions, France's Robert Schuman, Britain's Ernest Bevin, and Acheson swiftly compromised their quarrels and wrote what amounted to an interim peace treaty for Western Germany...
...cannot count on friends in Western Europe if our strategy in the event of war dictates that we shall first abandon them to the enemy with a promise of later liberation. Yet that is the only strategy that can prevail if the military balance of power in Europe is to be carried on the wings of our bombers and deposited in reserves on this side of the ocean...
Military assistance for western Europe is a risk and a gamble, but it is one we have to take," Bruce C. Hopper 24, associate professor of Government, told an audience in Littauer Auditorium last night. His talk, "Military Aspects of the Atlantic Community" was the fourth in a series sponsored by the United Nations Council...
Hopper stated that a "definitive" U. S. policy towards Europe is developing for the first time in history, and that arming the western democracies is an important part of it. Chief aim of the policy is the establishment of a balance of power against Russia, he said...