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...making cars together, Luxembourg's Dostert and Germany's Wilhelm Seibel truck trailers. Agfa and France's Vedette are collaborating on cameras. Eurista is a new FrenchGerman coalition making electrical resistors. Gasoline is now distributed in France and Germany by Desmarais. The Société Française PIC and Krupp recently signed an agreement to build a petroleum plant. "Within a few more years," says a West German industrialist wonderingly, "no government will be able to pull out of the Community. The businessmen won't let them." This is precisely what Jean Monnet...
Long before the war ended, Monnet was planning ahead. In 1943 he went to Algiers to coordinate U.S. aid to Free French forces in North Africa. There, De Gaulle was orating almost daily about "la grandeur française." Monnet told him bluntly: "If you are not very careful, there will be no grandeur. We are a small country, we have been plundered, and our economic base has been largely destroyed. France may become a backwater of Europe." Grumbled De Gaulle: "Well, what do you propose?" In an incisive, seven-page memorandum, Monnet suggested rebuilding France's economy under...
When the novel appeared in France two years ago, Critic Claude Mauriac, son of Novelist François Mauriac, hailed it as marking "the return of Aragon to the literary fold . . . His non-Communist colleagues-this is to say practically the whole body of French writers-have once again recognized him as one of them-even as a member of the first rank...
Kukla and Ollie (NBC, 5-5:05 p.m.). PREMIERE of new series, with occasional visits by Fran Allison...
...nipped into the chic St. Tropez to outfit daughters Paloma, 12, and Catherine, 13, in the Riviera's latest de rigueur-narrow green slacks and embroidered tops. Though the girls consider themselves sisters, they stem from unrelated branches of the cubistic Picasso family tree. Paloma is by Painter Françoise Gilot, Catherine by Picasso's wife's first husband...