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...Communists, who had backed him on the Indo-China settlement, were now voting regularly against him. The Roman Catholic M.R.P., the party of ex-Premiers Bidault and Schuman, accused him of sabotaging EDC, and resentfully rank themselves solidly against him. But the Socialists (with 105 seats) were wavering towards...
...peddled wine to fur trappers of Hudson Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company and rebuilt a Chinese railroad, served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat (his passport was specially endorsed by "Winston S. Churchill"). But his finest hour came in 1950, when he persuaded French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to propose the supranational coal-steel pool. "The pooling of coal and steel is but a beginning," Monnet argued. "The union of the peoples of Europe...
...Monnet's contagious enthusiasm grew the great crusade for Europe, which France's Schuman, Germany's Adenauer and Italy's late great De Gasperi led and fought for. Said one of Monnet's admirers: "If he were put under an anesthetic, he would still keep repeating, 'We've got to create Europe,' as they wheeled him into the operating room...
...into the fight. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud scoffed at "the Eden miracle," warned of the "rebirth of the Wehrmacht" and sarcastically asked: "Will there be a German general staff which will train men a la prussienne and force in them the soul of a German soldier?" Even old Robert Schuman, who probably sacrificed his political future by his long fight for EDC, assumed a slight tinge of nationalism. "There is the risk," said he of the London plan, "that Germany will one day withdraw from this fragile syndicate...
...defeat of EDC would be a tremendous blow to the drive for defense and integration of Western Europe. He also emphasized that the EDC plan should not be thought of as a separate entity but as "a part of a whole movement for European unity, of which the Schuman Plan for Coal and Steel was the first step...