ADMISSION OF GERMANY

Chronicle (Levin), 18 August 1949, Page 5

ADMISSION OF GERMANY

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^ Churchill Suggests Special Session Of Assembly

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Received Thursday, 10.50 a.m. LONDON, August 17. Mr. Winston Churchill today suggested that an extraordinary session of the European Consultative Assembly be called. within a few months for the admission of Germany to the Council of Europe. Describing the issue as the greatest and most important facing the Assembly, he said: "A united Europe cannot live without the help and strength of Germany." The British Conservatives later tabled a new resolution calling for a special sitting of the Assembly tiext January. They urged that at this session the Assembly should decide its own agenda without the approval of the Committee of Foreign Ministers. Addressing the Assembly, Mr. Churchill, after emphasising that he did not advocate the surrender of national sovereignty in the interests of furthering European unity, said: "We must not on our present electoral basis attempt to challenge the powers that belong to duly constituted national Parliaments founded on direet suffrage. Such a course is premature and would be detrimental to our longterm interests." They were engaged in creating a European unit in the world organisation of United Nations. "I hope we shall become one of several Continental units and that in due course these units will be represented in the world organisation collectively rather than as individual States."