Word: benelux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENERAL MOTORS, which just announced a $107 million expansion program to double auto production in England and the Benelux nations (TIME, Oct. 4), will spend another $71 million in Germany. The money, said G.M.'s touring President Harlow Curtice, will be used to increase output of the Opel works from 165,000 to 250,000 cars and trucks annually...
...Brussels, two days later, Curtice announced that G.M. would double its output in the Benelux nations, too, by spending $6,000,000 to expand its assembly capacity. Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, said he, should provide a market for 166,000 cars and trucks by 1960, up 26,000 from the expected 1954 total...
...England. The man chosen to "do something" was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. With two aides Eden set out in an R.A.F. plane on a "Cook's tour" (the Foreign Office code name for his trip) of the six EDC nations. Starting at Brussels, where he and the Benelux foreign ministers reached "complete agreement" on a method of rearming the Germans, Eden flew on to Bonn where Chancellor Adenauer was waiting at the airport. This week Eden flies to Rome and Paris, peddling a made-in-England solution: German "adherence" to NATO, with "adequate safeguards...
...Premier was peevish. To his bitterly divided Cabinet (12 against, 13 for EDC), he reported sourly that France had been "dragged through the mud" at Brussels. This was a foretaste, Mendès said, of how EDC would work: instead of France controlling Germany, Brussels had shown that Benelux and Italy would "gang up" with the Germans to impose their will on France...
...Dream Fades. The U.S. made EDC the core of its European policy. Britain supported it. Italy could hardly wait to approve it. The Benelux countries got behind...