Word: euratom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saar. After months in the hands of the experts, two important new treaties are ready for submission to six Western European nations: one to eliminate internal customs barriers and provide a common market for 160 million people, the other to pool all atomic research and development into something called Euratom. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan has already begun negotiations looking toward British participation in a free trade zone of all Europe...
...European, Mollet decided to move France a short step forward toward United Europe. Before the National Assembly was a plan to authorize him to negotiate with five other Western European nations (Italy, the Benelux countries and West Germany) to create a supranational atomic-energy pool to be known as EURATOM...
There were good technical arguments for joining EURATOM: 1) France will run out of coal reserves in about 30 years, 2) France has neither the technical nor financial resources to run an atomic-energy program of its own. To this Mollet added another argument: "Confronted by the atomic colossi of Russia and the U.S., no isolated European country can make its voice heard. It is necessary to weave between the countries of Western Europe the bonds that will prevent Germany from turning to the East." Because nobody wanted to kick out Guy Mollet and inherit the mess in Algeria, Mollet...
Last month Euratom got a helping hand from the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. He invited Rene Mayer, Monnet's successor as president of the Coal and Steel Community to visit Washington next month to talk up Euratom...
Last week another influential group got into the discussion. The new group is a subcommittee of O.E.E.C. (Organization for European Economic Cooperation), the outfit set up by European governments to channel U.S. aid to Europe. Mindful of objections to Euratom on the grounds that it covers too few countries and carries supranationalism too far, the O.E.E.C. committee proposed cooperation short of full partnership among the 17 O.E.E.C. nations. To include countries such as Brit ain, which is skittish about too deep involvement in continental federation, O.E.E.C. would settle for "joint undertakings" among different combinations of countries to spread their investment...