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Back in 1946, in a historic meeting at The Hague, the leaders of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg committed their nations to a far-reaching experiment in cooperation and trust among Europe's sovereign states-an economic union that obliterated economic borders to let goods, capital and labor flow as freely as they do across U.S. state lines...
...European nations (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) have set out to create a common market that will whittle away tariffs among themselves and build up joint tariff fences against outside countries. Unless it strives to work out tariff-paring agreements with this community-in-the-making, the U.S. will find itself fenced out of a market that now buys 17% of the U.S.'s total exports...
...Europe" met in Paris to elect officers for the Common Market and Euratom. They also chose directors for two other six-nation agencies, the thriving Coal and Steel Community and the new billion-dollar European Investment Bank. But they could not settle on a single city for their capital. Luxembourg's white-mustached old Premier and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech put up such a stubborn fight to keep the European Coal and Steel Community headquarters (and its $6,000,000 yearly payroll) for his tiny country that the founding fathers could only agree to postpone their choice until their...
...nations which had been fighting among themselves for centuries -Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-formed the European Coal and Steel Community, surrendered to its control 188 iron ore mines, 355 steel companies operating 455 iron and steel plants, 145 coal mining companies operating 459 active pits. Last week the Common Assembly met in Rome to review five years' experience of the first practical experiment in European community, and found it good...
Because Holland is such a small country, he may find his group trip takes him to the surrounding countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany as well as various parts of the Netherlands. If so, he will have an opportunity to sense the hostility which many of his Dutch friends still feel for the Germans, despite the formal cordial relations between the two countries...