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Joseph Luns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (158 words) |
 | Joseph Antoine Marie Hubert Luns (August 28, 1911 - July 18, 2002) was a Dutch politician and former NATO secretary-general. |
| Joseph Luns was foreign minister of the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| He refused to surrender western New Guinea to the Indonesian authorities until forced to do so by the Kennedy administration of the United States. |
| Guardian | Joseph Luns (1606 words) |
| Luns, unlike many British political contemporaries, clearly understood that a uniting Europe was the only means of sustaining a lesser European power's influence, whether with a mighty neighbour like Germany, the ex-invader, or in general. |
| Luns thus stood for election for the old Catholic People's party, but only sat in the second chamber for short periods in 1956 and 1959, when protracted, post-electoral negotiations were in progress. |
| Luns made the same error as that much more serious offender and contemporary fellow diplomat, Dr Kurt Waldheim, former secretary-general of the UN and then president of Austria, who denied all knowledge of expulsions of Jews from the Balkans when his initials were on the movement orders. |
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