Word: luxembourgers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ruhr industrialists, French steel kings, militant trade unionists, patriotic Germans, patriotic French-could they work together for the common good? The amount of resistance to the Schuman Plan is a measure of how much it asks. The Dutch have approved it; the Italians are ready to. But Belgium and Luxembourg resist. So does West Germany, biggest steel and coal producer in continental Europe. Konrad Adenauer was forced last week to postpone a vote on the Schuman Plan until January, and without Germany the Plan will not work. Yet France had been the highest hurdle. Clearing it was exciting progress that...
...last week, this Army will have some 1,000,000 men. About half, or 590,000 of them, will be organized into combat divisions, the rest will be service and support troops. The divisional breakdown: 14 French, 12 German, 12 Italian, and five from Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg...
Many of these resolutions formed the basis of the Petersburg proposal, which was drawn up in Germany during 1950. Providing for one-man control over a joint officer corps from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the occupation powers, the Petersburg formula set a limit of 250,000 troops to be trained by an international staff. It also suggested that the Ruhr produce war materials, under joint Allied supervision...
...Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta arrived in Stockholm "to learn and enjoy as much as I can," almost at once found something she enjoyed. Said she: "I love your red cows. They remind me of our Middle West. I wish I could take one home with...
Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta told a Saturday Review of Literature reporter that she liked to have an Air Force band at her G.I. parties. "Those cute things, just 19 or 20, away from home . . . They're just so cunning. They're Perle this and Perle that. Then they'll look shy at me and say, 'Would it be good manners if I used this fork?' " She hoped, Perle added, that people no longer considered her frivolous. "They've changed a little, don't you think? They thought I was just a partygiver...