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...could agree only on "what could not be done." He grieved, but he did not give up. Oddly enough, his disillusioned outcry came in a week when France for the first time in its history pledged itself to surrender some of its sovereignty: the French Parliament ratified the Schuman Plan to pool Europe's coal and steel. One of two traditional enemies was willing to share with the other the very source of power and strength over which they had fought so often. It might be but a mere pinprick in the barrier of distrust. Yet through that pinprick...
Above the squabbles of Europe, and its own internal jealousies, the voice of France sounded bold and clear last week. By a thumping 377-233 majority, the French National Assembly ratified Foreign Minister Robert Schuman's two-year-old plan to pool Europe's coal and steel resources. It was proof-and proof was badly needed-that France can still take the lead in Europe when boldly led herself...
...three days and two nights of debate, the Premier out-talked and outmaneuvered his opponents. He made the Schuman Plan a vote of confidence in his government. "We are not talking of trial marriage," he explained. "We want to create indissoluble economic bonds. You, gentlemen, you will not refuse Europe this first and perhaps only chance to live." Pleven cozened the Peasant Deputies by promising bigger farm loans, made sure of the Socialists by agreeing to drop income taxes on low-income groups. The debate waxed emotional. An Independent accused the government of selling out to the Germans: "We give...
...prevailing tone of voice here today is something between a whine and a growl. What sometimes muffles this unpleasant sound is the sweetly reasonable voice of Adenauer himself . . . He is for the Schuman (coal and steel) Plan and the Pleven (European army) Plan. He is against both neo-Nazis and Communists. He manages to be on the side of the angels, the Anglo-Saxons and even the French . . . But the voice of Adenauer is a voice that finds little echo in the German nation. He has great qualities, but not the capacity to evoke affection for himself or real enthusiasm...
...Schumacher, with his violent stand against West German cooperation with the West, against West German rearmament for defense, against the Schuman Plan, speaks for an ever-growing segment of the German people-probably far more than any other German politician. In 1949 his SPD Party won 131 Bundestag seats against 139 won by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. If a federal election were held now, Schumacher's would probably become the largest party in the Bundestag, supported by the votes of at least 7,500,000 Germans. If East and West Germany were united (as Schumacher keeps demanding...