Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Foster Dulles put forward a compromise solution that won unanimous approval. In effect, it established that the statesmen have final authority, and generals were bound to consult them, but no cumbrous machinery of confining rules was laid down. After all, said Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak: "If an atomic bomb knocks out the telephone, I don't think we can wait for the service to be re-established before we make a decision...
...Common Assembly. Last week the 78 delegates to the Assembly unanimously elected a new Assembly president: economist Giuseppe Pella, former Christian Democratic Premier of Italy (for 4½ months in 1953). He is the third ex-Premier to be chosen for the post (predecessors: Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak and Italy's late Alcide de Gasperi...
...urgent air to the chandeliered conference room where the nine foreign ministers assembled at the invitation of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. They sat about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mend...
...outside the conference, Eden's offer created a sensation. It gave Frenchmen the assurance they most had desired, the prerequisite they most insisted on before letting the Germans, whom they do not trust, rearm. In the conference room, tears shone in Frenchmen's eyes. Paul-Henri Spaak put said his hand on Mendès shoulder and said quietly "You've won." Mendès replied: "Britain's guarantee will rejoice the heart of France...
Said ex-Premier Antoine Pinay: "In comparing the conferences of Geneva and Brussels, Mr. Premier, you have implied it was easier to get along with the Communist countries than with our friends and allies. If Chou En-lai seemed a more ami able negotiator than Monsieur Spaak, that is no doubt because you did more to reach understanding with the former than with the latter...