Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...66th birthday, Jean Monnet took his morning stroll through the woods near his home in Luxembourg. His mind was made up. Next day, the cheery-cheeked little Frenchman who is president of the six-nation European Coal-Steel Community stood before its governors and announced his resignation. "In order to participate more freely in the realization of European unity, I shall take back my liberty," Monnet said. He was still the practicing optimist, yet not all his brave words could hide the fact that the man who was known in 1952-53 as "Mr-Europe" no longer felt at home...
...possibility is outright grants; since the war, as Latin Americans often point out, rich Belgium and tiny Luxembourg have received almost three times more from the U.S. than the $209 million given to all 20 Latin American nations. Most Latinos, however, are beginning to agree with the U.S. that money gifts are not the cure. Another possibility is higher prices for the things Latin America sells, but the U.S. is cool toward price supports anywhere. A third way is more technical guidance from the U.S.; Latin America could use another 7,000 scholarships a year to train engineers and technicians...
...debonairly; 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...
...Brussels, two days later, Curtice announced that G.M. would double its output in the Benelux nations, too, by spending $6,000,000 to expand its assembly capacity. Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, said he, should provide a market for 166,000 cars and trucks by 1960, up 26,000 from the expected 1954 total...
...Agamemnon's captain and first officer moved into second-class quarters to make room for the Greek King and Queen. The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg parked her duds in the chief engineer's bunk. Ex-King Michael of Rumania and his honey-haired wife Anne were berthed in a double stateroom...