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...drab coal-mining towns of the Ruhr and the Saar, the mood was as grey as the fall weather that lay over the countryside in a chill and foggy blanket. The roll of muffled drums echoed through the streets as thousands of miners and their families silently marched in protest, bearing black flags and signs pleading for government action to save their jobs. Their protest was too late. Last week the German coal industry announced plans to close down 36 mines that produce a quarter of West Germany's coal and employ more than 60,000 miners, fully...
France considers the Moselle Waterway so valuable that it paid a handsome price: Paris agreed to foot two-thirds of the bill and renounced its claims to the Saar; Germany paid only one-third of the cost, though nine-tenths of the canal flows through its territory. When the project is linked up with the Sâone and Rhône rivers through a complex system of canals, it will provide an unbroken waterway from Marseille to Rotterdam, a route first visualized by the Roman generals Nero Claudius Drusus and Gaius Antistius Vetus some 2,000 years...
Into Thomson-Houston inner offices to rout out anarchy came new managers. Among them was Jacques Dontot, 46. a flexible but outspoken engineering graduate of France's prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, who had risen to technical director of the nationalized Saar coal mines, but was casting around for "a different working silhouette." Dontot, who became managing director of Thomson in 1960 after only four years with the company, is described by his colleagues as a "managerial genius." His rebuttal: "You don't need genius in top management. You need ponderation. You need to accept good news and bad with...
...teach at Vermont's Middlebury College. When France fell in 1940, Joxe escaped to Algeria to carry on the resistance, helped plan the North African landings. Later, he was France's ambassador to Moscow (1952-55); as ambassador to Bonn in 1956, he helped negotiate the Saar treaty by which France and Germany took the first big leap toward economic integration. In 1959, after De Gaulle had returned to power, Joxe became Secretary of State to Premier Debré, presided over far-reaching government reforms. According to friends, Joxe was disappointed that he had not become De Gaulle...
...Germany into NATO in a fashion acceptable to France, thrice attacked by German armies in the last hundred years? It was Jean Monnet, then directing France's postwar economic recovery, who found the answer: to pool the coal and steel resources of France and Germany-the Ruhr, the Saar, Lorraine, over which so many Franco-German conflicts had erupted-under a supranational authority...