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...approving the creation of a European Army by six nations, including Western Germany." He acknowledged that the actual European Army would not come into existence (nor a single German soldier be recruited) until the European Army treaty was completed and ratified by France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. After almost two years of U.S. plugging for German troops, there are still none...
...achievement. Without bickering or hesitation, the 35 foreign, defense and finance ministers' of the 14 Western allies had: ¶ Endorsed for the first time German rearmament and the long-proposed European Army. This cleared the way for the continental six-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-to negotiate a treaty fusing their armed forces into an internationalized, one-uniform army of 2,000,000 men, 6,000 warplanes. ¶ Agreed to spend $300 billion for mutual defense in the next three years-the greatest peacetime and peace-policing buildup in history. On paper, that means...
Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg have still to ratify. So must The Netherlands' upper house. But now that France and Germany, which count most, have both endorsed the Schuman Plan, the others will probably follow suit. Within months, Western Europe should be able to start making a dream of centuries come true...
...mansions and lean-to shanties, her fashionably dressed strollers and her ragpickers. Among the finest: a warmhearted study of a blind organ grinder accompanying a bright-faced young street singer, deadpan views of the cluttered windows of a toupee maker and hairdresser, sailor-hatted moppets at play in the Luxembourg Gardens, a plump bakery girl in leg-of-mutton sleeves pushing her wicker cart, a crew of pavers at work on a Paris street...
...totaling 18 divisions (many under strength): U.S., 6 divisions; Great Britain, 3; France, 5; Belgium, 2; Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg together, equivalent of 2 divisions...