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...Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman, former president of the European Coal and Steel Community LL.D...
...join the Common Market or not? The agonizing question followed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan everywhere, even up to Cambridge, where at his side to receive an honorary degree was the original Mr. Europe himself, Jean Monnet (see cut), first head of Europe's Coal and Steel Community, forerunner of the Common Market...
...know where Germany was on the map," was concentrating on the embassies. Reston shrewdly cultivated friendships with some of the young foreign officers, notably Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, then first secretary in the Canadian embassy, now leader of Canada's opposition Liberal Party, and France's Jean Monnet, both of whom rose along with Reston and later became good news sources. He also caught the eye of the New York Times's London Bureau Chief Ferdinand Kuhn, who hired Reston for his staff in 1939. It was quite a coup for Scotty Reston, who had been, trying...
...Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and TIME'S domestic bureaus, they added up to a year in which free-enterprise capitalism was on the march throughout the world-a thrusting, competitive capitalism that poses challenging questions for the U.S. in the 19603. As France's Jean Monnet, sparkplug of European economic unification, said near the end of 1959: "There is now a new force in world economic relations. The U.S. helped the free world, and the free world has recovered economically. Now we must all work together to make sure that economic expansion continues...
...commissioners would be top-drawer private bankers-for the U.S., perhaps Chase Manhattan Bank's John J. McCloy or Detroit Bank & Trust Co.'s Joseph M. Dodge; for Britain, Sir Oliver Franks; for West Germany, Chancellor Adenauer's influential banker friend, Hermann Abs. Perhaps Jean Monnet would be added from France, and Escott Reid from Canada. In time, Japan might also be asked to chip in. The idea would be to commit combined large-scale capital investment to those economies, under control of an international authority independent of the donor countries...