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Thorny Choice. Last year the six nations that make up the European Coal and Steel Community (Germany, France, Italy and the Benelux countries) decided it was time to make the common market more than a dream. At a meeting in Messina, Sicily their economic experts drew up plans for a customs union that, from the trade point of view, would convert the six into a single "country" with no internal tariffs and common external tariffs. Since creation of such a union would have a drastic effect on the economy of other European powers, the 17-nation Organization for European Economic...
...diminishing gleam in the eyes of thousands of "good Europeans" and one big tangible fact: the Schuman Coal-Steel Community, which pools the coal and steel of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. Last week the Council of Ministers of the Community met in the Sicilian city of Messina...
...They were drawn from 43 museums and private collections. They fit together into a fresh and fascinating picture of a civilization which, Roman Historian Livy wrote, "filled not only the earth but also the sea for the whole length of Italy, from the Alps to the Straits of Messina...
Hungry hoodlums, homesick for the U.S.A., rallied around from Palermo, Messina, Genoa and even the island of Elba. "I wish I had been left in an American jail," one explained. "At least there I could eat and sleep at Government expense...
...WEBB ATTACKED IN LONDON BY TWO MEN IN TAXI, the paper once reported: "Readers are assured that despite the attack upon him, our investigator Duncan Webb will not be intimidated. His inquiries are continuing." One of his inquiries four years ago broke up a vice ring run by the Messina brothers, who had bossed London's pimps and prostitutes for 17 years. After the Home Secretary admitted in Parliament that Scotland Yard had insufficient evidence to break up the ring, Webb hammered away at the brothers in Page One stories under such headlines as: ARREST THESE FOUR MEN. THEY...