Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business was booming at the Verrerie Marquot, a glass works at Fains-les-Sources, halfway between Paris and Strasbourg. The factory was turning out $50,000 worth of glassware a month. With his furnaces producing at full capacity, Gustave Marquot, the 29-year-old owner, last week was studying plans for expansion...
When Robert Schuman replaced him as Foreign Minister in 1948, Bidault sulked for a while on the Riviera, then plunged back into party politics and was elected president of the M.R.P. He was the French delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, and showed himself, in the phrase of one observer, "a sincere and ardent bickerer" for European cooperation...
Such well-intentioned enthusiasts as Teitgen tried to march too fast. This was just what the sponsors of the Strasbourg movement had feared might happen. Before he left for a breather at Nice, Churchill himself championed the go-slow view. "We must not attempt on our present electoral basis," he said, "to challenge the powers that belong to the duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must...
Scowling over his glasses, Winston Churchill held his hands before him as if he were physically wheeling a big problem into the Council of Europe's Assembly at Strasbourg...
...Terraces. .The-question of West Germany's admission had hung over the debates of the Consultative Assembly, had seeped into the delegates' conversations as they sat on Strasbourg's fine restaurant terraces, eating Strasbourg's fine pâté. Churchill did not force the issue to a vote; he did suggest that the Council's Committee of Ministers convoke a special session in December or January, to receive a German delegation. He also reserved the right to reopen the Germany question at this Council session, if there were signs that it was going...