Word: euratom
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...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...
...them is Jean Monnet's Action Committee for a United States of Europe, which believes that the next, best step toward federation would be an atomic partnership called "Euratom," modeled on the six-nation Coal and Steel Community which France's Monnet bossed until last year. No politician, Economist Monnet has nevertheless made much political progress, claims the support of majorities in the six Parliaments concerned (France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg...
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...