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...geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman LL.D. Citation: "Fearless crusader against economic chaos, he has spent 40 fruitful years in the quest for order and equability among the free nations of Europe...
...raised the banner of European unity in the years just after World War II had no such subtle process in mind. Pointing to the gutted cities of the Continent as testimony to the folly of unrestrained nationalism, they demanded political unification. Sparkplugged by France's Jean Monnet, the intense, brilliant economist who heads the Action Committee for a United States of Europe, they planned to construct united Europe through a series of economic, political and military bodies, each of which would possess supranational powers in a limited field...
Besides, the original dream is not dead; it is only seen to be more evolutionary, just as the German nation ultimately emerged out of the North German customs union. And even such an ardent supranationalist as Monnet is now inclined to believe that a European federation, if it comes, will spring from a gradual change in the habits, tastes and prejudices of Europe's peoples. It no longer takes the huffing of a Stalin or the threats of a Khrushchev to make Western Europeans unite naturally...
...night last week and greeted them with a broad smile: "Gentlemen, good news at last. A corner of blue has opened in the sky for France. We are delivered from the nightmare in which we have been living for many months." Gaillard had just learned that his emissary Jean Monnet, France's most famed advocate of European unity, was coming home from Washington bearing $655 million in credits...
...credit negotiators carefully avoided mention of the quickest way to cure France's money troubles: an end to the $4,000,000-a-day Algerian war. But while Monnet talked in Washington, Gaillard pulled through the French Parliament a measure which brightened hopes that some compromise, may yet be reached. After one fallen Premier and eight months of debate, both Houses gave final approval to a loi-cadre for Algeria setting up the framework of limited home rule by regional assemblies, and establishing voting equality for Moslem and French (TIME...