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...lady diplomats were not howling oratorical successes. Mrs. Perle Mesta, party-giving U.S. envoy to Luxembourg, called her speech "Women as Partners." She began by saying: "This is one of the most exciting moments of my life," a line which might have been lifted straight from Call Me Madam, a musical comedy about her. Sample cliches from her address : "It is a great thing to be an American woman ... In America today women are a tremendous force." Mrs. Mesta wore a chic black dress and liberal strands of pearls and looked, withal, as though she had just come in from...
...Manhattan, asked whether she approved of a woman running for the presidency, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, replied: "I know I wouldn't want a woman captain of a ship I was on." Her second thought: "Now isn't that a dreadful thing for a woman minister...
Italy, which mines less iron ore than tiny Luxembourg and depends on its neighbors for nine-tenths of its coal, has everything to gain and almost nothing to lose from the pool. Despite heckling by the largest membership of Communists in any Western European legislature, the Chamber of Deputies passed the Schuman Plan by a handsome 265-98 majority. Next step: the appointment of the nine-man High Authority to start the plan rolling. If all goes well, Western Europe should have a common market for coal, iron and steel by spring next year...
...name on 17 different documents. Next came Belgium's Paul van Zeeland and France's Schuman, who obliged sound photographers with a running commentary: "We are now about to sign the mutual guarantee between EDC and the United Kingdom . . .We are now signing the NATO guarantee." Italy, Luxembourg and Holland followed. "Put some light on De Gasperi," shouted a cameraman, and there was light. After half-an-hour's scribbling, the ink was dry; so were the ministers. Arm in arm they marched out of the chamber to sample the Quai d'Orsay's champagne...
N.A.T.O. strategy, at last word, will be to retreat all along the western front in a sweeping are, giving up northern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in that order. This retreat will leave Denmark in a precarious position, and will give the Russians access to the narrow straights of the English Channel...