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...France, as the major landpower, was expected to get the bulk of ground equipment -tanks, artillery, trucks, communications materiel, small arms. France would also get some tactical aircraft. But the major share of planes would go to Britain, including every type from trainers to 6-173 and 6-298. Benelux countries would get the same sort of equipment as France, but less of it. Norway, closest to Russia, would get radar equipment and some army supplies. Denmark would be given antiaircraft guns and radar for the defense of her air bases. Italy, her armament limited by treaty, would get little...
...Council, created last winter by Britain, France and the Benelux countries, is headed by a Committee of Ministers (the Foreign Ministers of the ten founding nations) on which each member votes according to his nation's policy. The Consultative Assembly, however, is a revolutionary departure: its 87 members* represent political groups inside their countries (excluding Communists), are supposed to act as Europeans; thus, a Winston Churchill could team up with the champions of capitalist democracy from other countries, a Herbert Morrison with Socialists. But the Consultative Assembly's agenda is controlled by the Committee of Ministers. The limitation...
Tennessee's Estes Kefauver last week introduced in the U.S. Senate a resolution calling on the President to invite the other nations which sponsored the North Atlantic Treaty (Britain, Canada, France and Benelux) to a conference on federal union. The bill is endorsed by 19 other Senators,* some of whom, said Kefauver, voted for the treaty "with great hope" and some "with deep misgivings...
...Matter of Where & If. Behind these scenes of Western Union fraternity lies an unprecedented peacetime experiment in military organization. The Western Union defense setup was established last year by the Brussels pact between Great Britain, France and Benelux. It is headed by the five nations' defense ministers; under them is a committee of the five nations' chiefs of staff, which drafts directives for the commanders of the Western Union land, air and sea forces and their staffs. Together these are called Uniforce. The land forces (Uniter) are under De Lattre; the air forces (Uniair) under Britain...
...France. 4. Benelux countries...