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...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...
...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...
...march of foreign dignitaries continued. After Adenauer came Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak to discuss the Congo, and India's U.N. Delegate V. K. Krishna Menon, on orders of Jawaharlal Nehru to try to persuade President Kennedy that his cold war views are not really anti-American (he failed). But despite such affairs of state, John Kennedy's Thanksgiving week was celebrated by family festivities much like those in millions of other American homes-well, almost...
...post; U.S. representatives on the institute's board of governors include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Among distinguished European members are its chairman, Paul van Zeeland, a former Belgian Prime Minister; Antoine Pinay, a former French Prime Minister; and Paul-Henri Spaak, former NATO Secretary-General. On an initial budget of $350.000, contributed mainly by in dividuals, foundations, industry and trade unions, the institute will carry out research, sponsor conferences, act as an information clearinghouse. Among the institute's assignments: to find ways and means to liberalize world trade...