Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe was well on the recovery road, except for West Germany. Question was, how to rebuild Germany into NATO in a fashion acceptable to France, thrice attacked by German armies in the last hundred years? It was Jean Monnet, then directing France's postwar economic recovery, who found the answer: to pool the coal and steel resources of France and Germany-the Ruhr, the Saar, Lorraine, over which so many Franco-German conflicts had erupted-under a supranational authority...
...Jean Monnet's creation is also working a revolution in the taste and preferences of the West
...Today the same French company, under pressure from German competition, sells a larger and better refrigerator for only $120. "Before 1958, no French firm would dream of putting out a cheap, well-designed, ready-to-wear range of women's clothes," says Galeries Lafayette Chief Buyer Jean d'Allens. "Now several are selling women's skirts for as little as $10, and selling them all over the Common Market...
...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 is counting
...Common Market executive and their staff drive cars marked with special European license plates, send their children to the European high school, and, except for accents, have lost many of their national traits or concerns. Of all these new civil servants, still the most tireless at 72 is Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet, the most dedicated international ist of them all-although at the same time he remains as thoroughly French as Cognac, the town of his birth...