Word: eurocrat
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Flags flew at half-mast in Brussels over the headquarters of the Common Market. The tribute was in homage to that grand old Eurocrat, Robert Schuman. His death last week at 77 remined the world that the new Europe which Charles de Gaulle so grandly purports to head owes much of its impetus to other Frenchmen with broader horizons...
...July 1948, and for another brief period later in 1948), Schuman took over the Foreign Minister's post. In 1949, after helping draw up the North Atlantic Treaty blueprint, he signed the historic NATO pact on France's behalf. In 1950, in league with another French Eurocrat, Jean Monnet, he proposed the "Schuman Plan" for the European Coal and Steel Community, which proved to be the forerunner of the six-nation Common Market, and of the Euratom pool for peaceful nuclear resources. In 1954 Schuman lost his only major battle-a drive for an all-European army...