Word: beneluxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive in Korea spurred Western Europe into action. At Fontainebleau last week the defense ministers of the Brussels pact nations (Britain, France, Benelux) agreed to increase armed forces and .speed war production...
...delegates of six nations met again in Paris last week to move the Schuman Plan a step nearer reality. West Germany and Italy were ready to accept the supranational coal-steel authority which France's Jean Monnet had proposed as "the first foundation of a European community." The Benelux group still had doubts...
...Paris this week delegates from France, Western Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations gather in the august Salon de I'Horloge of the French Foreign Ministry. Their task is to hammer out an agreement which will give substance to Robert Schuman's bold plan for pooling Western Europe's coal and steel industries. To most of the delegates it means the practical beginning of an undertaking which in the past has been little more than an oratorical flourish: Western Europe's union. But above the hopeful voices in Paris was audible a disturbing buzz-the voice...
...Verbal Misunderstanding." France, Italy, West Germany and the Benelux countries had announced that they were ready to start talks to implement the Schuman Plan. The British had grudgingly agreed to send delegates to these talks. But when the French suggested that the participating nations issue a joint communiqué stating the purposes of the talks (i.e., to merge Western Europe's coal and steel industries under an international authority), the British refused; they argued that this would mean an advance commitment to the plan. In its best diplomatic manner, France's Foreign Ministry announced that a slight "verbal...
This attitude was not confined to the Labor Party-nor to Britain. In any country, unemployment resulting from the closing of any inefficient nationally protected factory would call forth a sharp reaction against the Schuman Plan. The leaders of France, Italy, West Germany and Benelux understood that danger as well as the British did. It was significant that the others were willing to go ahead and explore the risky ground, while Britain's planners hung back...