| 单词 | western union |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWestern Union Western Union n. now historical an association of western European nations (Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) which was formed in 1948 for purposes of military and economic cooperation and which became the Western European Union upon its enlargement in 1954. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances auld alliance1566 the League1589 armed neutrality1780 German Confederation1786 Germanic Confederation1815 Holy Alliance1823 the Concert of Europe1841 Sonderbund1847 Triplice1896 Soviet block1919 communist bloc1922 Eastern bloc1922 Soviet bloc1924 axis1936 Rome–Berlin Axis1936 Eastern block1938 communist block1941 Western European Union1944 Arab League1945 Western Union1948 Atlantic Pact1949 NATO1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949 Seato1954 W.E.U.1954 Warsaw Pact1955 Atlantic Alliance1958 ASEAN1967 G201972 1948 E. Bevin in Hansard Commons 22 Jan. 390 We did not press the Western Union..in the hope that when we got the German and Austrian peace settlements, agreement between the Four Powers would close the breach between East and West. 1974 P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 351 Mr Brown has recounted the stratagem he employed at a Ministerial Western Union meeting to ensure that the application was formally presented in a way that could not run into procedural objections. 2006 P. Cornish in H. Strachan Big Wars & Small Wars iii. 76 After Montgomery's departure for the Western Union, the War Office began to focus more on the Middle East than on Europe. < as lemmas |
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