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Council of Europe (14 nations), meeting in Strasbourg. This most toothless of international assemblies proved to be the most interestingly talkative (see below...
Skip the Banquets. Last week, 14 junketing U.S. legislators dropped into peaceful Strasbourg to find out what it was all about and to 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...
...week's end, the Americans bowed out of Strasbourg, leaving behind a blunt warning that U.S. taxpayers are getting tired of helping to finance quarrelsome, divided Europe. "The cookie jar has a bottom to it," said Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "We want action, not words." European delegates were left breathless, puzzled and more than a little annoyed. The Americans seemed unwilling to concede that, just as they themselves had semi-official status but did not speak for the U.S., so their fellow legislators represented countries but not governments...
Virginia's Representative Howard Smith was sourest of all. "I came to Strasbourg to hear how European unity can be achieved," he said. "I have heard nothing except how it cannot be done." Moreover, commented Smith, "at the end of a journey through different European countries, you end up with all sorts of money and you can't even buy a cigar. There are too many passports, too many languages...
...only sign of Sylvie was a letter to the caretaker of her children. "Terrible things are going to happen to me," it said. "Have pity." The letter was dated in Paris, bore a return address near Strasbourg and a postmark near Marseille...