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Word: groupements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allay French fears that German recruits might coalesce into a new nationalistic Wehrmacht, EDC will limit its national contingents to relatively' small divisional formations known as "groupements": 12,000 men apiece for armored groupements, 13,000 for infantry. The groupement will be the largest formation of men from the same country; at army corps level (i.e., three or four groupements), national units will be put into multinational commands in which French, German, Italian and Benelux staff officers will serve side by side. Probable size of the European army, when & if it is recruited: 43 groupements (14 French, 12 German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Germans Bearing Arms | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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