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While De Gaulle has insisted all along that the only feasible political union must be a loose confederation of sovereign states, convinced Europeans such as Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak have clung to the ideal of a single, truly supranational U.S. of Europe. ("Spaakistan!" snorts De Gaulle.) Recently, however, Spaak has come round to the Gaullist approach, at least as a practical first step toward ultimate integration. Moreover, at week's end there were signs that Charles de Gaulle might also be in a mood for compromise. After an hour's chat with his old antagonist...
Paris, Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak evoked it anew. The time has come, he urged, for the six nations of the Common Market to create new political institutions of cooperation atop the thriving economic cohesiveness the Common Market has already achieved. Spaak made plain that although a supranational, federal United States of Europe remained the ultimate goal, his plan represented a lesser aim: a confederal unity leaving each of the Six a nation sovereign and intact...
...eliminate Belgian support for Tshombe, but that was in Katanga, where Tshombe was attempting his abortive secession. Now Belgium is reluctant to get involved, for fear that the rebels will retaliate by killing the Europeans who remain in the country. After hours of discussion, Harriman and Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak reached a compromise: Belgium will double its number of advisers to 400, while the U.S. will increase shipments of trucks, planes and communications equipment to Tshombe's government. Spaak would not permit Belgian officers to engage in combat, but both men agreed that they would do nothing...
...Prince Carlos and The Netherlands' Princess Irene, as well as the Spanish birth of Belgium's Queen Fabiola, to woo the Low Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that his government's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) could never brook an apertura a Franco...
...Manhattan Bar last week as the Congo's famed O.K. Jazz Band serenaded the honored guest with its improvised Spaak Cha Cha. As the first member of the Belgian government to visit the Congo since his country prematurely and disastrously thrust its former colony into independence, Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak might have expected far harsher words of welcome...