Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes Schuman seemed to have a split character. Two of his aides, who work in separate offices adjoining him, saw him differently. Said one: "To me, the man is a saint. Most people would call him a mystic." Said the other: "If he's a mystic, he certainly has both feet on the ground...
...them saw the devout Christian. The other saw the Lorrainer. Schuman is both...
...Hitler Is Lost." Schuman was born (1886) in Luxembourg, of an old Lorraine family. When Germany annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, his family automatically became German, and Robert was German, technically, until his 33rd birthday. In school, he displayed a redoubtable memory. Said one of his teachers: "That boy will end by editing an encyclopedia...
...successful practice in Metz. When Lorraine was returned to France in 1919, he was elected deputy from his district, and has been reelected ever since. The first to "discover" him was wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, who made him Undersecretary for Refugees in 1940. At one point during the war, Schuman was kept in solitary confinement by the Germans. "It did not leave me bad memories," he says. "I meditated...
...crypt of a big Lyon church, he told the Bishop of Metz and 1,500 fellow Lorrainers: "Hitler is lost! You may be sure of that." After that, the Nazis put a price on his head. Friends who knew him before the war now find him subtly changed. Schuman, the Premier, has more warmth than Schuman, the lawyer...