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...world government ever comes, world taxes will not be far behind. Last week Western Europe got its first taste of international taxation: to raise the $50 million it needs to get started, the Schuman Plan High Authority levied a tax-up to 9/10 of 1%-on all coal and steel produced in its six member nations...
...endowment listed last week. Between 1926 and 1939 it gave $182,000 to the Institute of Pacific Relations, which in 1952 was denounced by the McCarran Committee as an "instrument of Communist policy." It also paid out about $15,000 in small sums to such leftists as Professor Frederick Schuman of Williams College, and Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, listed by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a member of the American League for Peace and Democracy and of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. All in all, said the endowment's President Joseph E. Johnson, the endowment had spent...
...hardheaded Dutch, who learned in World War II that they cannot exist without allies, are already closely bound by common tariffs with Belgium and Luxembourg in Benelux; with three other nations (Italy, France and Germany) in the common iron & steel pool of the Schuman Plan, and in the projected European Army; with all these nations, and eight more besides, in the mutual defense guarantees of NATO. By its latest action, The Netherlands went farther than any nation has before to prepare itself for the rights & duties of a United States of Europe, should that day ever come...
...Joho") Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or one of the opposition parties would control the 50-man Landtag. Actually, they were being asked to choose between 1) France's plan to "Europeanize" the Saar by making it an independent but pro-French unit within the Schuman Plan's European coal and steel pool and 2) Germany's wish to reincorporate the Saar in the fatherland, from which it was parted...
...With the Saar, which produces 25% of its steel and 28% of its coal, France can almost match Germany in heavy industry; therefore, France & Germany can get together in the Schuman Plan on just about equal terms. Without the Saar, French industry would be hopelessly overmatched...