Word: benelux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since war's end, European unity has again & again been loudly heralded: there was Western Union, the Benelux union, the Council of Europe, finally the European Defense Community (not yet ratified by the parliaments of the member nations). Last week brought another hopeful attempt, this time by the Schuman Plan countries (France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, West Germany). The Schuman Plan's chief purpose is economic, i.e., to pool coal & steel resources, and to carry out this aim, the members have set up a High Authority (a kind of executive office), a Council of Ministers (a kind...
DIRK SPIERENBURG, 43, Dutch delegate to the Benelux Council...
...history-making Schuman Plan to pool West Europe's coal & steel resources -little more than a dream two years ago, a far-off scheme initialed by six hesitant foreign ministers a year ago-became a fact. Already ratified by France, Germany and the Benelux nations, it was approved by Italy, sixth and final member...
...high hope of a better world, signed the Kellogg peace pact, forever outlawing war. In 1938, they saw Hitler's envoys make their cynical pledge of peace with France. Last week, the cupids watched over another scene of hope; the Foreign Ministers of France, Italy, West Germany and Benelux were signing the Treaty Establishing the European Defense Community, the military equivalent of the Schuman coal-and-steel pool. When (and if) ratified, it will weld 400,000 armed Germans into a supranational European Army, responsible to NATO's new Commander Matt Ridgway. Ancient Dream...
...groupements": 12,000 men apiece for armored groupements, 13,000 for infantry. The groupement will be the largest formation of men from the same country; at army corps level (i.e., three or four groupements), national units will be put into multinational commands in which French, German, Italian and Benelux staff officers will serve side by side. Probable size of the European army, when & if it is recruited: 43 groupements (14 French, 12 German, 12 Italian, 5 Benelux...