Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to his regular duties for TIME Promotion, Myles Weston has applied his knowledge of heraldry to the business of decorating some of Robert Chapin's maps in TIME, to LIFE'S series on the History of Western Culture, and other purposes. The latter include answering letters from readers taking spirited exception to one or another coat of arms that TIME and LIFE have printed. The nice thing about the subject matter, Weston says, is that it allows for equally spirited replies...
...four months the shiny, glass-walled, neon-lighted German parliament building (Bundeshaus) at Bonn on the Rhine had been doubled in size. The landscaping was finished only 24 hours before Western Germany's new government convened last week. On the final night, 1,500 workers mopped the floors, polished the windows, hung the draperies, arranged the potted plants. At dawn a tired old charwoman sank into a green leather chair and groaned: "All I can say is, something good had better come out of all this." The new democratic government was Germany's chance to work her passage...
...warned the delegates against totalitarian power grabs. He recalled the March 1933 meeting of the Reichstag, which voted the infamous enabling act handing Hitler his dictatorial powers. At this, an interrupting cry came from the extreme left, behind the kettledrums. It was Max Reimann, Communist Parteiführer of Western Germany and one of the 15 representatives of his party in the Bundestag: "How many delegates here voted...
...visit by keeping away from all ceremonies on the Navy's behalf, and limiting official recognition of Admiral Conolly's presence to a private cocktail party in the chargé d'affaires' home. Unlike the Navy, which thinks of Spain as a neglected sector of Western Europe's defense, State thinks that the only way to liberalize Franco's regime is through the hostility of U.S. opinion towards the Spanish dictator. Now, wailed DOS men, Franco would be harder than ever to liberalize. Undeniably, the Navy's independent foreign policy had bolstered Franco...
Denied other halls by the government and by leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...