Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strasbourg last week, Paul-Henri Spaak, acknowledged leader of the federation forces, resigned his job as President of the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly (see below) with a ringing indictment of all the proud and cautious pettifoggers who could agree only on "what could not be done." He grieved, but he did not give up. Oddly enough, his disillusioned outcry came in a week when France for the first time in its history pledged itself to surrender some of its sovereignty: the French Parliament ratified the Schuman Plan to pool Europe's coal and steel...
...flags of 14 nations made a fluttering rainbow above the portals of the House of Europe in Strasbourg. Inside, before a semicircle of 200 desks, Belgium's portly Paul-Henri Spaak, president of the Consultative Assembly, spoke heatedly. His pugnacious lower lip was thrust forward, his left hand plunged into a pocket, accenting his resemblance to Winston Churchill...
...Spaak glared at the assembled statesmen. "I cannot in conscience approve any longer of the timid policy of this Assembly," he thundered. "Therefore, I have decided to resign at this critical point and devote myself more actively to the fight for a united Europe...
...participate in four days' joint debate with 20 members of the Assembly. Their ambitious agenda: "Union of Europe, its problems, progress, prospects and place in the Western world." Rhode Island's crusty old Senator Theodore F. Green took turns with Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak as chairman...
...College d'Europe is operated in Belgium under the auspices of the Council of Europe, an independent organization directed by Paul Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister...