Word: benelux
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...example, Saint-Cyr, the West Point of France, would be obliged to admit German, Benelux and Italian cadets, and could no longer have sole say over its own curriculum. Nor would France any longer be able to make, buy or sell arms as it sees fit. There was also a serious question whether France could freely exchange its overseas officers-fighting in Indo-China or tied down in colonial trouble spots-with its own officers in the European Army, without five nations' concurrence. These difficulties had led De Gaulle to demand a looser federation, something like an old-fashioned...
...hardheaded Dutch, who learned in World War II that they cannot exist without allies, are already closely bound by common tariffs with Belgium and Luxembourg in Benelux; with three other nations (Italy, France and Germany) in the common iron & steel pool of the Schuman Plan, and in the projected European Army; with all these nations, and eight more besides, in the mutual defense guarantees of NATO. By its latest action, The Netherlands went farther than any nation has before to prepare itself for the rights & duties of a United States of Europe, should that day ever come...
...BENELUX, too, plans sharp reductions. Prosperous Belgium plans to halve its military spending; Holland, which promised five divisions by 1954, expects to have only three...
...Britain four, France eight, Italy three, Benelux four, the rest...
...Friedrich, "is like the American meeting at Annapolis before the Philadelphia convention in 1789." This body, he disclosed, will submit a draft of the constitution to the Schumann Plan Assembly on October 23, who will then offer a final copy to the parliaments of France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux nations...