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Last week in Brussels, Ernest Bevin's dream of Western Union was taking on some hard outlines of reality. Delegates to a five-nation meeting (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg) moved rapidly toward a defensive alliance against Russia. By mid-March, the delegates' work would be presented to their Foreign Ministers who were expected to sign an "umbrella treaty," to keep Western Europe out of the Red rain. The Czech crisis had speeded up the fusion of Europe's democratic forces...
...India Office in London, the logjam broke after ten days of hard-driving pressure, stepped up by the Czech crisis. The Big Three of the West (the U.S., Britain and France) began the conference with a sensible and long-delayed step-admission of the Little Three (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg). The Benelux countries depend so closely on German industry that they insisted on a settlement. France yielded along the logical lines of compromise. The agreement in principle looks toward a Ruhr that will be politically part of Germany, but an international control of its economy will see that its products...
...that good enough? One who thought not was the hardheaded Premier of Belgium, Paul-Henri Spaak. When the draft of a treaty against "German aggression" was shown to the Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg), they replied that such a basis was "inadequate." Spaak and his neighbors wanted mutual aid that would start "automatically" in case of hostilities with Germany "or a state connected directly or indirectly with Germany's action." Toward better definition of the Bevin Gesture, they suggested a "regional organization" for Western Europe, within the framework of U.N., on the lines of the American hemisphere defense...
...Premier Léon Blum, who rooms in Marie de Medici's Palace of the Luxemburg and pays rent in proportion to the amount of furniture he uses, attended to a personal matter before he departed for the U.S. to ask a $2,500,000,000 loan. He asked the French Government, please, to take away some of the furniture...
...Austria, Luxemburg and Hungary, election results showed tremendous new vitality in parties akin to M.R.P. In Norway and Denmark similar groups, with a Lutheran instead of a Catholic background, also showed gains. In Italy, although no election had been held, the same strengthening of the center was registered by the choice of Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi to form a new Cabinet...