Word: benelux
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...they dreamed of it or dreaded it, the statesmen of Western Europe had all come to accept the fact that a new era will dawn on New Year's Day 1959, when the long-planned European Common Market finally begins to forge France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations into a single economic unit. Last week, in dramatic preparation for the new era, ten European nations carried out at one fell swoop the most far-reaching international currency reform since World...
Given this go-ahead from the world's top trading nation, other European nations followed suit. In rapid succession, West Germany, Italy, the Scandinavian countries and the Benelux nations all proclaimed their currencies externally convertible. (Denmark, responding to the drama of the occasion, revealed that it was following the British example even before the British treasury set the example...
...austere Hotel Matignon office as a fortress to be stormed. Cutting words crept into the conversation of British officials over the alleged "obstinacy" of the general. The principal British complaint was economic. The British were furious about the Jan. 1 beginning of the European Common Market (France, Germany, Italy, Benelux), which leaves Britain outside...
...Halfway House. The British, who like to be half in and half out of Europe, of late have become increasingly disturbed about the six-nation Common Market, the economic bloc of 160 million customers which France. Germany, Italy and Benelux will launch on New Year's Day. From the start, the British refused to join the Common Market on the ground that they could not abandon their present intricate system of Commonwealth tariff preferences. At the same time, British industry dreaded the prospect of finding its products excluded from the Common Market. As a halfway house, Harold Macmillan...
...nightmare is haunting that nation of shopkeepers, the British. Within ten weeks the six nations of "Little Europe" (France, Germany, Italy, Benelux) will start their 160-million-customer "common market"-and Europe's senior trading nation will be outside...