ECONOMIC UNION
FRANCE AND LOW COUNTRIES
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26. The Luxemburg Foreign Minister. M. Bech, announced that Luxemburg. France, -Belgium, and Holland were negotiating for an economic union designed to fit into $ world security organisation and to include any separate German Rhineland State formed after the war. The union plan envisaged the elimination of all tariffs between the four countries and the removal or reduction of currency restrictions. Luxemburg, which was dependent on steel exports and imported Ruhr coke, desired the Ruhr to be internationalised. " The Allies failed in 1919 to stimulate the Rhineland separatist movement. There is another opportunity at present, for which the Rhinelanders are ready."
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Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 6
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109ECONOMIC UNION Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 6
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