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...urge-and need-to add German divisions to NATO is the No. 1 reason for EDC. Reason No. 2 is a long-term political objective: European Union. By intermingling the armies of France and Germany, Pan-Europeans like Konrad Adenauer, Alcide de Gasperi and France's Jean Monnet confidently hoped to staunch the national rivalries that have convulsed their Continent for centuries...
...Jean Monnet, president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. LL.D...
...basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus, but a new U.S. of Europe. "What we are doing with our own hands here at home in Europe is the greatest revolution of our history," said Jean Monnet last week. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning; the union of the peoples of Europe...
...Monnet's Europe Inc. hopes to escape from the "jungle of restrictions"-tariffs, quotas, production subsidies, price fixing and discriminatory freight rates-that has choked Europe's enterprise for centuries. Eventually, Italian householders should be able to buy Ruhr coal as easily-and almost as cheaply-as if it were mined in their own backyard; Dutch businessmen will get competitive bids from French and German, as well as Dutch, manufacturers. Europe's industrialists, glows Monnet, already "are discovering the big market. They think it is wonderful...
...Monnet is already looking even further ahead. "The committee for a common market," says he, "represents the first European Parliament and the High Authority the first European executive...