Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Germany were becoming louder. Wrote London's wise Economist: "It is quite impossible to think of neutralizing Germany . . . Germany must therefore be defended. Indeed it is in Germany that the defense of the West must begin, and that it might fatally end." To overcome Western Europe's inevitable resistance to arming Germany, military men have suggested that a Western German army be placed under the command of Western Union headquarters...
...caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray Marcos in the vanguard...
With his wife's help (he never mastered Japanese), Hearn translated dozens of legends and poems, composed scores of essays and sketches on Japanese life. In the essays prepared for the eyes of Western readers, he remained his adopted country's devoted partisan to the end. Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries...
Museum Piece. In Philadelphia, the curious public, at the rate of 50,000 a day, was crowding into the Western Saving Fund Society to see its exhibit of $1,000,000 in currency...
This editorial proposes no easy program for dealing with the resurgence of totalitarian nationalism in Germany. It will not say how the Occupation could have created from the ruins of the Third Reich a healthy and congenial community in Western Europe. It does say that the Allies have not built that sort of a Germany, and that England, France, and the U.S. must immediately coordinate the little control they still hold to prevent Germany from disrupting the security of the West...