Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing his famed black beret and crackling with splintery opinions, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein popped into Washington last week. Though his visit was unofficial, Monty, as military chief of Europe's Western Union forces, delivered one deliberate message...
...Chiefs of Staff: if Western Europe was to stave off invasion, the Western Germans must be rearmed for defensive warfare, under Allied command...
Vishinsky had offered the Russian plain in his first speech before this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
...Western proposal, termed "essentials of peace," was largely a restatement of the aims of the U.N. coupled with an exhortation to participating nations to make their sections conform more completely with these aims. It asked, for example, that nations "refrain from using force contrary to the charter," that they cooperate in regulating armaments, and settle disputes by peaceful means. It also called for a re-examination of the veto power by the Big Five...
Finally on October 14, a Department spokesman announced that a joint Western plan would be forth-coming providing for atomic control, disarmament, and a general peace settlement. When the plan was presented on November 14, however, it was nothing of the kind. It was, instead, only a series of clauses seemingly directed against Russian policies and actions, in the U.N. and out. Thus, when the Committee voted for the plan, it merely voted against Russian, and for the West, and little also of a positive nature. The West indeed won a prestige victory, but it did not win peace...