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...bold proposal by France's Robert Schuman to pool French and German coal & steel industries (TIME, May 22) produced a burst of hope and revived, with a fresh urgency, the ideal of Western Europe's integration. But as the West set about examining the Schuman idea a little more closely, it also made a lot of people extremely nervous...
Most nervous were the British. Last week, after much tentative toe-dipping, Britain finally took a plunge and decided to join the new payments union of the European Marshall Plan countries; but Britain still held aloof from the Schuman Plan (see below...
...there were some misgivings. One was that, under the Schuman Plan, West European industry might grow so strong as to be entirely independent of the U.S., and that as a result Western Europe would be more likely to play a "third force" role of neutrality between Russia and the West...
...Marshall Plan and the Schuman...
...meetings of the Foreign Ministers in London last fortnight were notable for launching both "total diplomacy" and specific means to that end: the Schuman plan to pool French and German heavy industry, a sensible division of military labor by which each member nation will eventually do one main defense job for all, and a unified high command for the cold war on Communism. The meeting had still another achievement, announced last week: during the talks, Messrs. Acheson, Bevin and Schuman reached their first accord on the Near East...