Word: benelux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning, Britain, France and the three Benelux nations will compose the Council. Others will be invited to join. The Council will consist of government ministers meeting in secret and a "consultative body" meeting in public. The body of ministers will control the agenda of the lower deliberative chamber, and in general will exercise the real power...
Assembly v. Conference. Last year, France and Belgium had suggested formation of a "consultative assembly" as a first step toward a Western Union parliament. The matter had been referred to a committee of five (Britain, France and the Benelux nations). The French, who took the role of the hare in the race toward union (if race it was), wanted an assembly whose delegates would directly represent their countries' population. They would vote publicly, without regard to the nations' official policies. They could not commit their governments to action; they could, however, stir up public opinion at home...
Professor Alfred G. Fisk, leader of the San Francisco group, said that he "would be more than glad to have Harvard facfulty and graduate students" apply to him for places on the 22-man study tour. The trip will cover western Europe except for Spain, Norway, and the Benelux nations, leaving from New York June 27 or July...
...authority's council will have 15 votes-three each for the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, and one each for the three Benelux nations. Decision will be reached by majority vote, with no veto...
...actual additional military obligation on our part would result from our participation. The advantages would be great. By putting our already-incurred commitments down on paper, we would do much to bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment of European public opinion that believes the United States will pull out and leave Russia to fill the power vacuum...