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...Slow. With Mayer safely elected, the council heard a plea by The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Johan Beyen for a dramatic Monnet-style increase in the Community's powers. Backed by the Benelux nations, the Dutchman proposed 1) a common market for all European products, 2) the integration of European highways and railroads, 3) a European pool for the development of atomic power. But the French wanted to go slow, and the Germans, who used to be ardently supranational when they had no sovereignty to lose, no longer seemed keen to surrender any of their national independence...
...Class C division was won by Johan Andresen 2B in 57.3 seconds. Andreson, the skied for the varsity in 1953, was only four seconds slower than the winning Class B time...
...Johan H. Andreson, second year Business School student, won the Eastern Amateur Ski Association's giant slalom at Mad River Glen, Vt., last Saturday...
...John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mendès-France, reading a magazine. The pressing task before them was to fill the void left by the French rejection of EDC-in short, to bring an armed Germany into the alliance without losing the French...
...ministers, particularly the German and the Dutch, had already faced up to the consequences of rejecting Mendès' protocols and decided that, bad as those consequences were, the acceptance of an EDC that would make a mockery of a united Europe was infinitely worse. The Netherlands' Johan Willem Beyen gave Mendes a direct answer: "I apologize for not being able to agree with the French proposals." Konrad Adenauer followed, looking grey, tired, and deeply suspicious of the facile Frenchman opposite. The 78-year-old Chancellor objected to Mendès' discriminations against German soldiers, but what...