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...Foreign Minister Robert Schuman: "In a democracy without authority, everything goes adrift: Parliament, government, administration. We no longer respect each other enough to recognize the superiority of others. We know not how to command nor to obey...
...Switzerland last week, on a well-earned vacation, France's peppery little Jean Monnet, managing director and original creator of the Schuman Plan, ticked off the gains and setbacks since Western Europe agreed to pool its coal and steel resources just one year ago. The most obvious achievement was that the huge, $6 billion coal and steel industry-which accounts for 15% of the total industrial production of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations, and provides work for one out of every ten of their workers -had actually been brought under a single command. By so doing...
...customers. Germany's double-pricing system, which favored its own industries, was eliminated by raising the domestic price to the export rate. Similarly, the pegged domestic price of French coal was raised. But importers of Belgian coal, notably the Dutch, now pay less, and marginal Belgian mines, under Schuman pressure, are planning to modernize. As for coal supply, two mild winters have cut the need for U.S. imports from 18.2 million tons to a yearly rate of 4,000,000 tons, and have boosted coal stocks to 10 million tons...
...accept his ECA associations uncritically. He has denounced Europe's capitalists as "cartel-ridden," attacked Point Four as "a Mad Hatter's race" ("Our billions will be wasted for lack of an existing entrepreneurial class in the backward countries"). He looks askance at Europe's Schuman Plan for pooling steel resources, considers it an incentive to "socialism...
...This is a more complicated ambition than simple rearmament; the result is a complicated blueprint. At the top, EDC will have 1) a Council of Ministers, 2) an 87-man Assembly, 3) a nine-man Commissariat, serving as a six-nation general staff. Together, EDC and the Schuman Coal-Steel Plan will form the military and economic pillars of a still more visionary federation: the U.S. of Europe...