ECONOMIC UNION WANTED
LUXEMBURG, FRANCE, BELGIUM AND HOLLAND 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 the world security organisation and to include any separate Gerinan Rhineland State formed after the war. The union plan envisaged the elimination of all tariffs between the four countries, 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 and there was another opportunity at the present for which Rhinelanders were ready. Moscow messages say the link-up between Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Koniev occurred near Ketzin, 25 miles west of Berlin. The combined forces have already advanced at least five miles farther west.
The German-controlled Scandinavian Telegram Bureau reports that Russian armies have penetrated deeply into Mecklenburg Province.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 April 1945, Page 5
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158ECONOMIC UNION WANTED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 April 1945, Page 5
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