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...feel, actually, only one serious disappointment about the magazine: although Hoffmann and Iriye hint at the dimensions of what Monnet-like merging of technocrats may involve for groups wound up in their nation's sovereignty, nobody goes into detail. The Review and the British Tories are alike in this failing: perhaps mine is a hopelessly unreasonable request. But despite this Metaphysical quibble, it should be clear by now that The Harvard Review is the best thing to happen around here in a long time...
...said President Kennedy on the Fourth of July in Philadelphia, "long divided by feuds far more bitter than any which existed among the 13 colonies, are today joining together, seeking as our forefathers sought, to find freedom in diversity and unity from strength." Echoing Europe's own Jean Monnet, Kennedy called for a "concrete Atlantic partnership" that would help "achieve a world of law and free choice." He looked forward to a "declaration of interdependence . . . between the new union now emerging in Europe and the old American union founded here 175 years...
...Monnet and his group turned in one of their usually thorough, cautious efforts...
Though leaders of all the major non-Communist parties and trade unions serve on the committee, its guiding genius is Monnet himself. Over the past four months, he toured the six EEC capitals, usually holing up in some quiet hotel, telephoning and conferring with scores of officials. The declaration went through 24 drafts before Monnet had his final version...
...Monnet's Paris headquarters, where he works with only six fulltime assistants, is a four-room apartment at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, but it is a priority stop for visiting politicians, trade unionists, government officials from both Europe and the U.S. Dutch-born Max Kohnstamm, the committee's vice president and a longtime Monnet assistant, compares the operation with the committees of correspondence in America's struggle for independence. Monnet says quietly: "I don't have an official position. I have influence." He likes to add a quotation from a somewhat remote source...