Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directive, sent to McCloy by the State Department last month, did no more than to codify and sharpen U.S. policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman agreements at Paris (TIME, Nov. 21), reiterated the U.S. aim of making West Germany a peaceful, productive and democratic nation, closely "integrated" into the economic fabric of West Europe...
...close of the conference, Acheson had said that the Paris decisions would become known in the following "weeks, or even months." In fact, the substance of the Paris agreement on Germany was known last week. Thanks largely to France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman who had set what he considered a sound policy above French fears of Germany, the agreement represented a sizable boost for the young West German Republic...
...still largely intact. It was in this category that Germany's main hope of salvage lay. Bevin had grudgingly come around to the view that further dismantling of surplus plants, more than four years after war's end, would serve no useful purpose. France's Robert Schuman hesitantly agreed. If the Allied High Commissioners in their negotiations at Bonn (see above) are satisfied that the Germans will abide by Allied security measures, Western Germany may save most or all of this industrial potential...
Both Acheson and Schuman deny that the subject of a German army was discussed, but while Schuman says rearmament is not even envisioned, Acheson refused to deny that he favors such a move...
There is some basis for the alarm which many of the French have evinced at the new program. During the '30's France listened reluctantly to British defence of a strong Germany against the East and paid a higher price than either Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...