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...meshing French steel with German coal supplies, the Flick-De Wendel deal seems, at first blush, to hasten the pooling of Western Europe's heavy industry, which is the object of the Schuman Plan. Already, however, there are fears that it may create an international version of the old Flick cartel that the Allies had undone and Schuman Plan authority has promised not to reestablish...
...iron was French, the limestone Belgian, the coke came from Holland and Germany. Yet the stream of molten metal, tapped last week by Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus...
...Schuman's G-Minor Sonata gave her the opportunity to display her considerable technical powers. Despite the composer's maddening instructions ("As fast as possible," he demands at one point in the Rondo, and, a few measures afterwards, "still faster"), the sudden fortissimo outbursts, fast octave scales, and other bravura passages rattled along without mishap. And while Beethoven's Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance Tune may lack profundity and grandeur, they are good, clean fun and Miss Drooker made the most of them. Her elastic, but consistent phrasing gave logic to the variations, without binding them in a formalistic...
...smallness. Even men capable of leading cannot lead under the system which places all the power-but none of the responsibility-in the National Assembly, and dissipates that power among a dozen squabbling factions. "The Parliament is the supreme example [of the confusion]," commented ex-Foreign Minister Robert Schuman last week. "It has the means of imposing its will on everything-provided that it has a will . . . But it is easier to get a majority to criticize than to define a policy...
Lucidity & Nothingness. Le Monde's influential political writer, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, took up where Schuman left off. "What is so mysterious about France," he wrote, "is its impotence. It is that lucidity is followed by nothing. If you listen to an old minister, he will explain to you with serenity what could have been done. If you have occasion to meet a man today in power, he will brilliantly depict what must be done. The ideas are seductive, the directions are clearly fixed, the plans are meticulous; France comprehends the universe. And then nothing, or nearly nothing...