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...prophecy was recalled: alarmed by Gaitskell's strictures against the Six in Brussels last July. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. one of the Common Market's founding fathers, told him: "Even if you win with this position, you'll lose three times over later." Said tough, astute Herbert Wehner. deputy chairman and top ideologist of West Germany's socialist party last week: "What happened at Brighton is the kind of thing that keeps Soviet hopes alive that the West can be divided after...
Macmillan's "grand design" is more clearly recognized in Europe than in Britain itself. Two of Britain's most ardent European backers, Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and his Netherlands opposite number, Joseph Luns, were due in London this week to reassure Macmillan of their support, which is based largely on the expectation that British membership in the community will serve as a massive counterbalance to a Franco-German axis in Europe...
...political union before he steps down, is now willing to go along with De Gaulle's concept. Belgium and The Netherlands prefer a far tighter, supranational federation, but failing that, they want Britain in as a counterweight to France and Germany. Says Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak: "England is a great political stabilizing element, our necessary intermediary with...
Indispensable Shield. But Belgium and The Netherlands still balked at the whole idea. Tough-minded Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, one of the Common Market's founding fathers, deeply distrusts De Gaulle's obstructionist foreign policy, fears that a Europe of Fatherlands would give short shrift to smaller nations. In fact, the Benelux nations are only waging a delaying action until Britain joins the Common Market. Confident that the British will prove a powerful counterweight to France and a staunchly pro-NATO voice in its councils, they will be less fearful of confederation as a halfway house...
...Premier of the Congo, Cyrille Adoula, 38, delighted a White House luncheon party by toasting the U.S. for "having scored a bull's eye" with its Congo policy, scored a bull's eye himself by his tactful management of a potentially explosive meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, who came away proclaiming his "pleasure" over the encounter. Similarly impressed by the touring chief of government: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, who presented the Catholic-educated Adoula with a pair of cuff links bearing the Cardinal's coat of arms...