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Thorny Choice. Last year the six nations that make up the European Coal and Steel Community (Germany, France, Italy and the Benelux countries) decided it was time to make the common market more than a dream. At a meeting in Messina, Sicily their economic experts drew up plans for a customs union that, from the trade point of view, would convert the six into a single "country" with no internal tariffs and common external tariffs. Since creation of such a union would have a drastic effect on the economy of other European powers, the 17-nation Organization for European Economic...
...good European, Mollet decided to move France a short step forward toward United Europe. Before the National Assembly was a plan to authorize him to negotiate with five other Western European nations (Italy, the Benelux countries and West Germany) to create a supranational atomic-energy pool to be known as EURATOM...
...Benelux. Down from 100,000 to 30,000 in Belgium in the past seven years, down from 50,000 to 33,000 in The Netherlands...
...ECOSOC, and according to an unwritten rule, if elected, it could not then serve on the Security Council. Despite objections, however, the Assembly voted, and Yugoslavia was elected with U.S. support. But lined up against the United States were Britain and the Commonwealth countries, the three Scandinavian states, the Benelux countries, as well as Israel, India, and Burma...
FROM The Hague, Israel Shenlker, TIME correspondent in the Benelux countries, reported early last summer that Russia's great violinist, David Oistrakh, might go on a Western tour, including the U.S. Asked to follow up the story, Shenker took a direct approach. "I picked up the phone," he said, "and asked the Dutch operator to get me Oistrakh, a violinist in Moscow...