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Since war's end, European unity has again & again been loudly heralded: there was Western Union, the Benelux union, the Council of Europe, finally the European Defense Community (not yet ratified by the parliaments of the member nations). Last week brought another hopeful attempt, this time by the Schuman Plan countries (France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, West Germany). The Schuman Plan's chief purpose is economic, i.e., to pool coal & steel resources, and to carry out this aim, the members have set up a High Authority (a kind of executive office), a Council of Ministers (a kind...
...Europe: Strengthen the North Atlantic pact; grant military and economic aid to West Germany; implement the Schuman plan; and strengthen relations between Spain and NATO members...
Embittered, Schumacher opposed and insulted Adenauer at every turn. Although he was as fierce an anti-Communist as he had been an anti-Nazi, Schumacher said no to every statesmanlike gesture made in postwar Europe-the Schuman Plan, NATO, West Germany's joining the European Defense Community. Even in his own party he became dictatorial and sour, antagonized such figures as witty, courageous Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's mayor, who thought Schumacher's opposition to the West was dangerous. Schumacher earned the name Herr Nein...
...Negotiate a commercial accord with Britain, the only major coal and steel producer which shunned the Schuman Plan...
...directors of Europe, Inc., who consider themselves responsible not to the governments but to the people of Europe, regard the Schuman Plan Treaty not only as a mandate to set up the Coal-Steel Community but also as a mandate to lay the foundations for a new supernation. Its name: the United States of Europe...