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...Barclays Bank, the Bank of America, Italy's Banca del Lavoro, Germany's Dresdner Bank, Algemene Bank of The Netherlands and Banque Nationale de Paris formed Société Financière Européenne (capital: $7,800,000), with head offices in Paris and Luxembourg...
...Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey...
Would you believe: That during World War II the Allies were warned weeks in advance of the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Norway and Denmark? That Stalin received a verbatim plan of "Operation Barbarossa"-the crushing German push into Russia-more than a month before it happened? And that nobody in Moscow or The Hague or Whitehall or Washington did anything about those warnings...
Wilson claims that he encountered no insurmountable objections during his 33 hours and 15 minutes of discussions with the leaders of the Six. He has helped calm Continental fears about the strength of sterling by paying off his massive loans on schedule. In Luxembourg he even went so far as to pledge that Britain would not ask other Market members to come to the rescue in case of another run on the pound, even though the Common Market treaty provides for such mutual assistance...
Matter of Mood. In his quest for admission, Wilson now knows that he can count on Italy, Belgium, The Nether lands and Luxembourg for enthusiastic support, on West Germany for token support. And France? The British believe that Charles de Gaulle might hesitate to alienate the other five by black balling Britain as he did in 1963, but that he may try to delay its admission. A delaying operation by even so consummate a strategist as De Gaulle can not last forever. In the long run, the British feel certain of getting in because they believe that the historic trends...