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Early Career: as protégé of Planner Jean Monnet helped draw up program for postwar modernization of French industry. Spent a year in U.S. as Monnet's assistant. In 1946 was elected a Radical Socialist Deputy from the Charente; in 1953, as Secretary of State to Premier René Mayer, launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for French atomic energy development. After holding junior office in four successive Cabinets went into temporary eclipse during the premiership of fellow Radical Socialist Pierre Mendès-France, who thought him overly conservative, overly Europe-minded...
Heady Promise. While Ludwig Erhard dreamed of his home-grown Sherman Act, other Europeans had been dreaming even headier dreams. Spurred on by France's Jean Monnet and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, six Western European nations (France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries) early this year finished drawing up treaties to establish both a European Common Market and a European Atomic Energy Community (TIME, March 4). The first of these promised to create within 15 years a single West European market, comparable in size to the continent-wide U.S. market, with free trade within...
...Architects. Two dedicated men deserve most of the credit for the Common Market scheme. The idea was born to France's Europe-minded planner, Jean Monnet, who keeps a model of the Kon-Tiki on his desk as a symbol of those who take brave risks to prove an idea in the face of skepticism and indifference. The other man is NATO's newly chosen Secretary-General, Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, who has presided over the interminable treaty negotiations in Brussels. One reason why the near completion of the Common Market has burst on Europe...
...voice belonged to Grace Elizabeth Crum Gruenther, his wife for 33½ years. They have two sons, Donald, who is a major and Richard, who is a captain in the U.S. Army. * A three-man committee (Averell Harriman, Sir Edwin Plowden, Jean Monnet) appointed to examine each nation's economy, and decide what it should contribute. Their goals, approved by a NATO council meeting in Lisbon in February 1952: 50 divisions, half of them active, by the end of 1952, increasing to 70 the next year, to 97 by the end of 1954. Three years later, Lord Ismay admitted...
Last month Euratom got a helping hand from the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. He invited Rene Mayer, Monnet's successor as president of the Coal and Steel Community to visit Washington next month to talk up Euratom...