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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Doubling Up | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Cook's Tour | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Agony of Decision | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: We Belong to the West | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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