Word: beche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone among the Grand Duchy's 316,000 citizens shared Bech's territorial ambitions. Two years ago the Minister of Justice himself assured a group of foreign correspondents that if anyone tried to force as much as one foot of land upon it, Luxembourg would defend its territorial integrity to the last man. The government never did get around to passing a law making citizens of Luxembourg of the three German families who live in the Kammerwald. Thereupon, according to international agreement, Kammerwald had never officially been a part of Luxembourg at all. Last week, winding...
During his 33 years as Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg found it convenient to speak of his country's size as a well-rounded 1,000 sq. mi., but as every schoolboy in the Grand Duchy knew, Luxembourg was listed in all the books as having only 999 sq. mi. After World War II, Bech saw his chance. When the Inter-Allied Commission on Frontier Correction asked Luxembourg what it wanted in reparations, Bech promptly replied: one square mile of the German forest area called Kammerwald. The Allies threw in an extra square mile for good measure...
Schaus's party won, and last week, when the new government was formed, the furor over the accidents produced a major casualty. Portly, white-haired Joseph Bech, 72-a Christian Socialist who has been Foreign Minister for the past 33 years and a familiar florid figure at nearly every international conference since League of Nations days, in the company of the famed from Lloyd George to Macmillan-lost his job. The new Foreign Minister: Eugene Schaus...
...Euratom. They also chose directors for two other six-nation agencies, the thriving Coal and Steel Community and the new billion-dollar European Investment Bank. But they could not settle on a single city for their capital. Luxembourg's white-mustached old Premier and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech put up such a stubborn fight to keep the European Coal and Steel Community headquarters (and its $6,000,000 yearly payroll) for his tiny country that the founding fathers could only agree to postpone their choice until their next meeting in June...
...statesmen signed-first Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who presided over the drafting of the treaties, then Christian Pineau of France, Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates...