Word: counciling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
...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...
...their elaborate efforts to provide a worthy council hall, the French finally abandoned their plan of installing a marble copy of the Medici Venus directly above the speaker's rostrum. Explained French Architect Bernard Monnet: "It would have shocked the British." Instead of Venus, he chose a discreetly robed Minerva. That was perhaps symbolic. The Council would not succeed through love; if it accomplished anything, it would do so in the ways of Minerva, a hardheaded and practical woman...
...Council embarked on its task this week (probable agenda items: a European passport, a declaration of human rights), France's Georges Bidault made a significant point: "In other times this event would have been received as revolutionary. It is a sign of the new times that it appears so natural to public opinion today that no one is astonished...
Stanford was re-elected last June. When the town council of Brentwood refused to seat Stanford unless he took the full oath, including the clause on religion, he appealed to the Prince Georges County circuit court to order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...