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...made him first president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (Schuman Plan). The Schuman Plan is rightly named for Foreign Minister Schuman, who alone among Frenchmen had the moral authority to propose it successfully to Europe (TIME, March 1, 1948). But it was Jean Monnet who conceived the plan and did the behind-the-scenes selling...
Eating in the garden, Monnet described the revolution that he hopes to bring to Europe in words that echoed a deep sense of destiny. "The people of Europe want a change," he said. "This new Community is a revolution in Europe, perhaps the greatest Europe has known. We are embarked on the liberation of Europe from its past...
Money. The big question is who pays, and how much. Lisbon will hear a report from NATO's Three Wise Men-W. Averell Harriman of the U.S., Jean Monnet of France, Sir Edwin Plowden of Britain-who have been working secretly and late on the figures. Though most NATO partners fear they can no longer carry the defense load without serious inflationary crises at home, the Wise Men have urged Belgium and Canada to ante up more. They asked West Germany to contribute 13 billion marks; Germany said it could afford only 10; they compromised at 11 billion...
...year-old career Socialist who spent the war years in Britain, rejected Schumacher's familiar tactics of snarling insult and rampant nationalism; his opposition was polite and professorial. Even Socialist imaginations were fired when Professor Walter Hallstein, who co-fathered the plan with France's Jean Monnet, painted a bold picture of a Europe no longer economically fettered by national borders, able "to equal what was possible for the Americans...
Because the military experts of SHAPE and the politicians of the various nations could not get together on an answer at the North Atlantic Council session in Ottawa last September, the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman, France's Jean Monnet and Britain's Sir Edward Plowden were chosen to allocate fair shares for all. Last week the Three Wise Men, as their NATO colleagues have dubbed them, made their recommendations to the Temporary Council Committee (the Twelve Apostles), on which all NATO members are represented. Gist of the Wise Men's report...