Excerpt from The Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 26: April 7, 1952 The original members of the Council of Europe were France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Ireland. Greece and Turkey were invited to become members during the first session in 1949, and they joined immediately. Ice land, which had been invited at the same time, became a member in March 1950. A few months later, in 1950, the German Federal Republic and the Saar were given associate memberships, which entitled them to representation in the Consulta tive Assembly but not in the Committee of Minis ters. On May 2, 1951, the German Federal Repub lic was admitted to full membership in the Council of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.