Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five European nations yesterday laid foundations for a Customs and Economics Union of Western Europe to resist the spread of Communism. Representatives of the countries, which include Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, predicted the pact would be ready for signature by the end of the week...
...Hitler Is Lost." Schuman was born (1886) in Luxembourg, of an old Lorraine family. When Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, his family automatically became German, and Robert was German, technically, until his 33rd birthday. In school, he displayed a redoubtable memory. Said one of his teachers: "That boy will end by editing an encyclopedia...
Some of Ernie's oldtime fire came back as he outlined the steps to be taken. Western Union would begin with Britain and France. Then economic and political understandings would be sought with Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Later (if the April elections there go the right way), "the new Italy" might be brought in, as well as Portugal. There was no hard & fast schedule, no thought of immediate federation or a United States of Europe. More than the western edge of Europe was involved. Bevin pointed to the British Commonwealth, to the overseas territories of Britain, France, Belgium...
Only once did he unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there...
Playwright Sacha Guitry, the 62-year-old Noel Coward of Paris, took on a new chore for Luxembourg radio listeners, Guitry, and his sponsor. From Paris the much-married jack-of-all-theatrics would make small-talk in his plush, bedroomy voice for 15 minutes a week. The old heartthrob's sponsor: Scandale Corsets...