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...past two decades, Europe has undergone a stunning renaissance, its two greatest symbols being the Common Market and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Under the inspiration of Jean Monnet, Western Europe developed a common trade area that led to unprecedented prosperity and a working class with at least the start of a middle-class way of life-a fact with incalculable repercussions in the Communist world. The Market also led to the beginnings of a free, united and supranational Europe, not attempted since the nation-state was born with all its banners flying, though it has been a dream...
...economists believe, Britain must change the very milieu in which its economy operates, acquiring in the process a thirst for efficiency and modernization. The nation that sired the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago needs a new revolution. It can be nothing less than the sort of upheaval that Jean Monnet wrought in France, when in the mid-'50s he was able to shake his nation out of its sloppy practices. The Labor government has made only a beginning: it has offered tax rebates to companies that increase their trade abroad, given new hope and esprit to the scientific community...
...Elysée Palace, the ebullient Belgian Foreign Minister pointedly refrained from his usual barbed quips at De Gaulle's expense. The most significant omen to date was De Gaulle's decision last week to call in an even more influential critic of Gaullism, Jean Monnet, founding father of the Common Market. Clearly, something big was stirring, something as big as Europe...
Limited as these pass agreements are, no one knows better than Khrushchev that freedoms have a way of developing a momentum of their own. There is a distinctly European and growing body of opinion, typified by Jean Monnet, spearhead of the Continent's postwar unity drive, that the solution to Europe's largest problem-the burning question of Germany's division-lies in the melding of all the nations of Europe...
...construction of Europe has become irreversible," said Jean Monnet, the aging chief architect of the European Economic Community-a remark he might not have felt up to making a few months earlier. French Agriculture Minister Edgard Pisani, looking as if he had swallowed a succulent mouse, was pleased that he could "now leave with a tranquil heart for my winter sports." And the Times of London, gazing upon the events with an outsider's eye, greeted the news from Brussels as "one of the best Christmas presents the Western world could have...