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...Must Create Europe. Dapper Jean Monnet, 63, a rare hardheaded optimist in a pessimistic Europe, intends all this. "We are not dealing merely with the pooling of coal and steel," he observed last week. "We are creating a new political reality." No man is better qualified to do the job of creating, for the "Little Howitzer," as his friends call him, has the driving power of an armor-piercing shell. When he gets hold of an idea, he never lets go. "If he were put under an anesthetic," said a friend last week, "he would still keep repeating...
...globe-girdling career, Monnet has sold bonds in Wall Street, peddled French brandy to the fur trappers of Hudson's Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company, and served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat purchasing arms (his French passport carried a covering letter written by Winston Churchill...
...earn a million dollars by the time he was 40. During World War I he pooled French and British shipping; in the Depression he lost his first million, and in the '30s he became one of the world's most active and least-known financial backroom boys. Monnet's influence on events has often been decisive. It was Monnet's insistence that the Allies should place large aircraft orders in the U.S. just before World War II that led to the quadrupling of U.S. output, and the production of vital airplane engines that helped...
France's postwar adoption of Monnet's plan to modernize French basic industries that first brought Europe's antique trade barriers and obsolescent machinery into the Little Howitzer's firing line. Then came the Schuman Plan for Europe. Monnet stumped the continent tirelessly, lambasting cynics and pessimists. "Just get the plan started," he would say, "and the whole framework of your difficulties will change for the better." He bristled with a sense of adventure: "I believe in the dynamic process which is life itself. A change brings a change...
...Monnet was the unanimous choice of all six member nations as president of the nine-man High Authority that will set the Community up in business. First, he expects to work out a mutually profitable liaison with the only major European coal & steel producer not included in the Community: Britain. "I know the British," chuckles Monnet. "No Frenchman is more ready than I to establish cooperation with them. But I want real cooperation...