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...Europe." NATO's Secretary-General Joseph Luns glowed to reporters: "The sun shines all over Europe today." Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, informed of the result at a gala banquet in Hamburg, immediately raised her glass and told the 360 dinner guests, who broke into applause. Jean Monnet, 82, justly known as "the Father of the Common Market," watched the vote from the gallery in the House of Commons. Afterward he beamed: "This is what I have been waiting for during the last 25 years. Now it's the turn of the youth of Europe." On the cliffs...
...award did not come as a total surprise to the former West Berlin mayor who became West Germany's first Social Democratic Chancellor in 1969. As rumors grew that he was a leading contender, Brandt privately urged that Jean Monnet, the French architect of the Common Market, be honored instead. Though relations between West Germany and Eastern Europe have greatly improved, Brandt regards his policy of reconciliation as only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef...
...others and a very clear sympathy for weaker persons." "Of all the politicians I have known," says Monnet, "Brandt stands out for one great quality: he is a generous man." Unlike so many of his generation, Brandt has no brown stain on his past?he was an active anti-Nazi...
...because food prices might rise by as much as 26%, Prime Minister Edward Heath's Conservative government is deeply committed to "joining Europe," and Tory leaders are convinced that they will carry the public with them once an actual entry agreement has been worked out. Also convinced is Jean Monnet. The Common Market's architect told TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers: "Two fundamental things have happened. First, England will join the Common Market. Make no mistake about it; they will come in. Secondly, we will have a monetary union. I am not saying that we will have it by exactly...
...Brussels. Nonetheless, it seemed fitting that the historic talks formally began in Luxembourg, where the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of the Common Market, established its first headquarters in 1952 under the tutelage of Robert Schuman, France's pioneering Pan-European, and his compatriot Jean Monnet. Since then, the hopes of creating a United States of Europe have faded amidst charges that the Six add up to little more than a self-serving customs union. Enlargement would help to clear away some of the inertia that has set in at Brussels. At the very least, the inclusion...