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Council of Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Responding to an invitation issued in May 1951, fourteen members of the Congress of the United States met in Strasbourg on November 20, 1951 in a special session with twenty members of the Council of Europe. The United States delegation included Senators Benton, Green, Henrickson, Hickenlooper, Humphrey, McMahon and Wiley and Representatives Cox, Ellsworth, Judd, Keating, O'Toole, Reams and Smith. Council representatives were Mssrs. Spaak (Belgium), Brentano (Germany), Boothby (United Kingdom), Crosbie (Ireland), Gerstenmaier (Germany), Glenvil-Hall (United Kingdom), Jacini (Italy), Kieft (Netherlands), Mercouris (Greece), de Menthon (France), Moe (Norway), Mollet (France), Ohlin (Sweden), Parri (Italy), Reynaud (France), Schmid (Germany), Treves (Italy), Urguplu (Turkey), de VallePoussin (Belgium), and Lord Layton (United Kingdom). The session was to discuss “the European Union, its problems, progress, prospects, and place in the Western world”; specifically the agenda included: 1) the economic aspects of rearmament; 2) the political aspects of European defense; 3) the dollar gap and trade between eastern and western Europe; and 4) the problem of refugees and emigration.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1952

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References

1 See International Organization, V, p. 624.

2 New York Times, November 20, 1951.

3 Current Developments in United States Foreign Policy, November 1951, p. 22.

4 For summary of the first part of the third session, see International Organization, V, 625.

5 Chronology of International Events and Documents, VII, p. 699.

6 New York Times, November 30, 1951.

7 Le Figaro, Paris, 12 1, 1951Google Scholar.

8 Council of Europe, Directorate of Information, Press Release IP/375, November 13,1951.

9 Council of Europe News, January 1, 1952.

10 Council of Europe, Directorate of Information, Press Release IP/375, cited above.

11 Chronology of International Events and Documents, cited above.

12 Le Figaro, Paris, 11 29, 1951Google Scholar; Current Developments in Untied States Foreign Policy, cited above.

13 Le Figaro, Paris, 11 28, 1951Google Scholar.

14 Council of Europe News, cited above.

15 Council of Europe, Directorate of Information, Press Release IP/424, January 7, 1952.

16 Ibid., December 3, 1951. For an analysis of the authority, see World Affairs, V, p. 454.

17 For summary qf the report, see this issue, p. 148.

18 For summary of the declaration, see International Organization, V, p. 816.

19 Council of Europe, Directorate of Information, Press Release EP/378, November 14, 1951.

20 Council of Europe News, cited above.

21 Council of Europe Directorate of Information, Press Release, IP/382, November 15, 1951.

22 Ibid., IP/346, October 5, 1951.

23 Ibid., IP/331, September 14, 1951.