Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invited by Paul Henri Spaak to counsel a pre-constitutional convention, Friedrich and Robert R. Bowie, professor of Law, advised the group on federal systems in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Germany. From these examples, the two offered suggestions for an effective European authority...
...Spaak, who is president of the temporary assembly, then called in government and legal experts to help draw up the constitution. "We just acted as advisers," said Friedrich. "We felt it was up to them to decide the form of government they wanted." Friedrich, however, was the architect for the first rough draft...
...have become an internationalized zone as headquarters for the Schuman Plan. But the Germans want the Saar for their own; the French won't hear of it. ¶ In the Assembly last week, the Germans and Italians wanted to elect a German president. The French backed Paul-Henri Spaak. After a sharp skirmish, the job went to Belgium's Spaak, who last December quit in disgust as president of the Council of Europe's Assembly because, he said, it could only agree on "what could not be done...
Would the Schuman Plan Assembly do anything more? Said Spaak hopefully: "This is the beginning of a great parliamentary experiment." Nevertheless, the elephants were still a long...
...well be on the eye of a radical change in Europe" Spaak remarked in summary. "In less than ten years the Europe of today mutilated, miserable, timid-can have regained her economic strength, and her spiritual radiance...