Word: benelux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris' gloomy old Quai d'Orsay, representatives of six neighboring nations stepped forward one by one last week to initial a draft treaty which would, if ratified, pool the armed forces of France, Germany, the Benelux nations and Italy into a common European army. Surrounded as the treaty was by more pessimism than at any time in its 15 months' gestation, the initialing ceremony was nonetheless something of a triumph when set against the tangled nationalisms and ancient hatreds of Europe...
...conceded that the other world focal point, Europe, was progressing better, at least six countries have been trying to achieve an economic unity (Benelux, West Germany, Italy, and France...
Maass said that Button started his thesis last summer and put the finishing touches on it while travelling through France, the Benelux countries, England, Italy, and Germany...
Before a German army can march again, it must be approved by the Bonn government (many Germans also have misgivings), and by the other partners in the proposed European Army-France, Italy and Benelux. To win their approval, Blank is making sure that on the new German army rolls there will be none of the old familiar names-Guderian, Kesselring, von Rundstedt, Mannstein. "This army," said a retired German officer, "will not be commanded by anyone you have read about in the papers...
...grand schemes and brave arguments were not suddenly collapsing; but they were faltering. And of them all, the most precarious was the European army. This ingenious and complicated scheme was designed to revive German arms without reviving German militarism: it would place German divisions beside French, Italian and Benelux divisions, in a multilingual army reporting to SHAPE. As things stand now, German divisions cannot be recruited until France-and the rest of Western Europe-ratifies the European army plan. Yet France balks at ratifying...