Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Konrad Adenauer and France's Premier Edgar Faure took off, in the midst of all their other perplexities, to meet in Luxembourg for an eight-hour session on how to save the Saar statute. Adenauer tried to get Faure to put off the referendum and pressure Joho into calling a Landtag election so that Saarlanders might vent their hostility on Hoffman without making the Saar statute an innocent victim of his unpopularity. But Paris and Bonn had explicitly agreed not to intervene in the Saar's decisionmaking, and so the two leaders agreed only...
Hostess Mesta. On the second floor, in one of the Majestic's air-conditioned suites, was globe-circling Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, onetime Minister to Luxembourg. She never played hostess to a more difficult crowd. "One of the men," she said later, "sprayed me all over with tear gas. I went back to my own room and closed the door. It was very frightening, because stones were coming through the windows. In a few minutes they were pounding on my door and starting to make a hole in it with their knives. There was only one thing...
...Organization for European Economic Cooperation includes Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany. The U.S. and Canada are associated countries...
...exchange agreement was signed in 1953 by four countries, Great Britain, Denmark, Luxembourg and the Saar. Recently, it was enlarged when France, West Germany, Iceland, Ireland, and Norway added their ratifications to those of the original signers...
Born. WEU (pronounced like a sigh of relief); in Paris, in the state dining room of the British Embassy. Western European Union consists of Great Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, gathered together in mutual defense...