Word: luxembourger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again & again been loudly heralded: there was Western Union, the Benelux union, the Council of Europe, finally the European Defense Community (not yet ratified by the parliaments of the member nations). Last week brought another hopeful attempt, this time by the Schuman Plan countries (France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, West Germany). The Schuman Plan's chief purpose is economic, i.e., to pool coal & steel resources, and to carry out this aim, the members have set up a High Authority (a kind of executive office), a Council of Ministers (a kind of cabinet) and an Assembly (a kind...
...morning last week, at Luxembourg's City Hall (the Jews had refused to go to Germany), German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Walter Hallstein smilingly handed Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett a golden fountain pen. Sharett bent over the reparations documents, and in the silence the scratch of the pen was heard through the room. But the pen made no mark: its ink had run dry. Stiffly, Sharett signed with his own pen. The other signers: Adenauer, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, representing 23 Jewish organizations outside Israel...
...making the appointments, Premier Drees had hoped to have one Foreign Minister at home while the other was abroad. But no sooner were they appointed than Luns was on his way to the U.S., while Beyen hurried off to Luxembourg...
...reporter who met the boat train to Paris spotted Estes Kefauver. on his way to Switzerland, traveling with Perle Mesta, who was returning to her job as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Had they talked politics? "Oh, no," said Madame Minister, "I'm in the State Department. We don't talk politics...
Perle Mesta, once famed for her Washington parties, wrote in This Week magazine: "After the three years I have served as Minister to Luxembourg, with world conditions as they are, I could never return to the party world of Washington . . . If I ever give Washington parties again, they will be different in purpose and spirit...