Word: benelux
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...customers seldom complain. Most seek financial security rather than good looks. Women are particularly fond of men from the Benelux countries, and are especially leary of bakers, butchers and innkeepers, afraid that they will ask them to help out with the business. And how about love? "Love," sniffs one German, "is for teen-agers-and Frenchmen...
...Italian Parliament that the Franco-German Treaty was a "menace". He stated explicitly that the President of the United States felt the same way. It can therefore be inferred (and was inferred) that the speech was cleared if not written in Washington. Similar statements were soon heard from the Benelux powers...
Item. After de Gaulle had vetoed British entry, the American press began murmuring about reprisals. These included encouraging Germany, Italy, and the Benelux group to deny the French certain concessions in the agricultural field, which are now being negotiated in Brussels. The formation of inter-allied nuclear units, staffed by all the NATO countries except France, has also been discussed. Warnings about a possible American military withdrawal from the Continent have appeared in certain widely-read columns. Finally, the same sources have spoken of economic and military assistance for those countries which oppose de Gaulle, and the opposite...
...loaded terms. In his speech, before bemedaled female Heroes of Socialist Labor, youthful innocents from Africa and sari-clad matrons from India, Khrushchev rehashed Moscow's charge that controlled disarmament is a form of espionage that "no self-respecting country can accept"; suggested that Scandinavian or Benelux troops plus Polish and Czechoslovak garrisons replace U.S., British and French forces in West Berlin; condemned the current U.S. series of nuclear tests in the Pacific. For good measure, Khrushchev waved his newest war club and boasted that Soviet scientists have developed an anti-missile missile...
...Benelux countries, which exported 85% of their 14 million-ton production last year, will soon be pouring another 1,700,000 tons a year in a still unfinished plant located near the port of Antwerp...