Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, 71 M.P.s signed an appeal for the merger of Western Europe (see below). In Brussels, the defense pact between Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg (TIME, March 15) was ready for signing. Said Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "The moment is vital. . . . [But] the best treaty in the world is worth only what its execution is worth. A diplomatic formula is not hard to find. A military agreement is not hard to make. But economic collaboration between people . . . that is the obstacle which must be surmounted...
...Ensuring Our Security." In a speech to Belgium's Chamber of Deputies, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak explained what this activity was all about. (Wits in London call Western Union "Spaakistan.") Said...
Clash of Economies. Last week Spaak said bluntly that he did not think the Western nations have done enough to blend their economies in selfhelp. "All the Western European powers have been practicing a fairly individualistic, not to say selfish, economic policy. We have all tried to save ourselves in very different ways. Some have pursued a policy of austerity [Britain], others a policy of abundance [Belgium], or dirigisme [The Netherlands]. Others, in their search for recovery, do not hesitate to fling themselves into purely monetary manipulations [France...
...that good enough? One who thought not was the hardheaded Premier of Belgium, Paul-Henri Spaak. When the draft of a treaty against "German aggression" was shown to the Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg), they replied that such a basis was "inadequate." Spaak and his neighbors wanted mutual aid that would start "automatically" in case of hostilities with Germany "or a state connected directly or indirectly with Germany's action." Toward better definition of the Bevin Gesture, they suggested a "regional organization" for Western Europe, within the framework of U.N., on the lines of the American hemisphere defense...
...Should I have the power to order it," declared Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, "I would ban any headlines . . . on international affairs bigger than one-half inch." Newspapers, the Premier complained, treat such matters "like crime and other sensational affairs...