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...APPRECIATE DEEPLY YOUR VERY FRIENDLY ARTICLE ON EUROPE [Oct. 6]. I AM IMPRESSED BY THE THOROUGHNESS AND PRECISION OF WORK YOUR EDITORS HAVE DONE. THE ARTICLE GAVE ME SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION I DID NOT HAVE BEFORE. MY THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO THE TIME STAFF, NOT LEAST THE ARTIST. JEAN MONNET PARIS...
...enjoyed your article on Jean Monnet on a United Europe. I believe that the partnership of Europe and the U.S. would create not only a new force for peace but also the strongest force yet conceived...
Your cover story on Jean Monnet and the European Common Market, where you took a very complex man and a complex economic situation and made them understandable and interesting reading, is the reason I am a TIME subscriber...
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...
Unfinished Business. For all their success, Monnet's institutions still have a long way to go toward his goal...