Word: luxemburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moving to implement a Western European alliance, Britain, Belgium, France, Luxemburg and The Netherlands...
...fine talk about a North Atlantic union for defense against Russia. Few Canadians paid much attention, or got much out of the vague and glittering generalities if they did. But last week, when news dispatches from Paris reported that Western Union countries (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg) were ready to join Canada and the U.S. in a North Atlantic Security Pact, Canadians sat up with a start, asked to be told what was going...
...more than 30 operettas, Lehar's own favorite was the Count of Luxemburg. "My friends often say," he wrote, "that I am like [the] Count of Luxemburg; they are perhaps not altogether wrong . . . I have always enjoyed life and society, the conversation of pretty women and witty...
...Ministry's Salle des Maréchaux, where Napoleon used to brief his marshals, the five Western European nations last week decided to set up a watch on the Rhine. Implementing the Brussels alliance (TIME, March 15), the defense ministers of Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg met and agreed on common measures against aggression-i:e., against a possible Russian attack. They set up "permanent international command . . . under a permanent military chairman...
...lose his job, partly because he had lost popularity by going along with the U.S. on a program of German recovery) made his points tensely, striking the table with the edge of his hand. The Dutch host-chairman, Baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, fiddled nervously with his papers. Luxemburg...