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...Paris, where official appointments begin at 10 a.m., Ike was at Premier René Pleven's office door at 8. Half an hour later he was at the Quai d'Orsay conferring with Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. Before 9 he moved on to talks with Defense Minister Jules Moch. He broke off intensive conferences with France's service chiefs only for an official luncheon. Said an astonished reporter: "The shortest that has ever been known. The guests were at the table for 40 minutes...
This was the view of nearly all British leaders, Tory, Liberal or Socialist. It was the view that French Premier Rene Pleven and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman had urged upon Attlee shortly before Attlee left for Washington. And it was the view that Attlee was urging upon Harry Truman in Washington this week...
Then France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made a gesture toward the go-slowly British. He argued that the French defense plan "does not imply creation of a superstate, but only of special institutions in a restricted field." Next, for the benefit of the equality-conscious Germans, Schuman said: "No discrimination will be made between the participating powers." (It was reported that France now agreed to German troops at the regimental level.) The Assembly gave Schuman an ovation; by a heavy majority, it voted for a European army with German participation...
This week the Schuman Plan will be embodied in a draft treaty. Europe's most important postwar act of statesmanship -after the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty-will be ready for initialing by technical experts of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands...
...taken Europe seven months to reach this notable stage in its quest for unity. At a cabinet meeting in May 1950, France's able Robert Schuman had drawn from his briefcase the dramatic proposal to integrate French and German coal mines and steel mills. More, he said, was at stake than an economic rationalization. His plan would dispel the war-breeding rivalry over the Ruhr's heavy industries, would lay a base for Continental cooperation ("The rallying of European nations requires that the secular opposition of France and Germany be eliminated"). Though the plan bore Schuman...