Extract from minutes of the 69th meeting of the WEU Council (19 December 1956)
Text Meeting on 19 December 1956, the Council of Western European Union (WEU) discusses the future of the organisation. The British representative Lord Hood comments Selwyn Lloyd’s statement on a master plan for an international complex that would comprise three elements: strategic and political direction, economic and financial questions and parliamentary questions. Although Selwyn Lloyd suggests that political consultations be held to discuss his ‘grand design’, French Ambassador Jean Chauvel believes that the WEU Council should stick to their existing programme of work, which is focused on the more limited European problem. He also expresses doubts as to minister Selwyn Lloyd’s idea for a single parliamentary assembly.
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Source: Council of the Western European Union. Extract from the minutes of the 69th meeting of WEU Council, 19th December 1956. III Future of WEU (doc CR(56)34 I 2). CR(56)35. pp. 1; 5-8.
Archives nationales de Luxembourg (ANLux). http://www.anlux.lu. Western European Union Archives. Secretariat-General/Council’s Archives. 1954-1987. Relations with non-member. countries and international organisations. Year: 1962, 01/12/1955-30/06/1962. File 350.00. Volume 1/2.
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