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...that the German components of that force be limited to batallions (or regiments); 2. that Germany should receive arms under the plan only after all the other members had been fully supplied; 3. that a supra-national European defense ministry be set up; 4. that certain parts of the Schuman Plan be put into effect before there was any action on German rearmament...
...instance, last week, at a world trade conference, the French spoke of increasing coal and steel tariffs, even though France has supported free trade until now. This may be an example to Britain of what could happen under a Schuman plan-controlled economy with Britain...
Withe conferences still going on intermittently, the Schuman plan is not yet in operation, and there is a question of whether it will ever be. One important reason for the proposal's failure so far has been Britain's refusal to join...
...schuman originally intended to have only France and Germany in the project. He thought that the high authority would be able to keep Germany and her industry in line and, at the same time, strengthen ties between the Germans and the western nations. Frenchmen themselves objected to this, feeling that, in an economic union of two countries, France would always be a junior member. France then asked other nations to join the program...
Apart from these political objections, there were questions on the very economics of Schuman's plan. In England, and in the French socialist party itself, economists complained that the program might become, in time, merely a super cartel, one that could practically make its own laws. Others pointed out that the continent has seldom been without its earls in the modern past; this group feels that an organized monopoly might be better than the disorganized system that is now in existence...