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Taken together with the Atlantic Council's decision to set up a joint cold war high command, and the Schuman proposal to pool French and German heavy industry (TIME, May 22), the new defense plan was the strongest impulse toward real union that the West's heart had felt...
...Schuman's colleagues stirred uneasily in their gilt and cherry chairs. In theory they were all for adding Western Germany to Western Europe's defense front. In practice, they were dead set against any real German participation, e.g., German membership in the North Atlantic Treaty. As politicians, almost all of them still believed that damning the boche was the cheapest way of getting votes in France. A week before, they had instructed Schuman to stall on the whole issue. But now Schuman said: "J'ai quelque chose ici" . .[I have something here...
...Schuman fumbled in his bulging black briefcase, first brought out a wrong document, then produced the right one. It was a plan that would bring West Germany more surely into the West European camp than anything proposed so far; it would also lay the beginnings of real Western European integration. The plan called for pooling of the French and German coal and steel industries...
...Schuman plan would establish a single steel and coal market for France and Germany, plus any other European countries that want to join. It would abolish customs duties and discriminatory freight rates on coal and steel. A joint international authority of the member nations would be set up to run the industries, with the specific tasks of 1) modernizing production; 2) supplying coal and steel to France, Germany and other members of the combine "on equal terms"; 3) developing joint exports to other countries...
...past, even enlightened Frenchmen like Schuman, who do not overestimate the boche bogey, had been reluctant about Franco-German economic integration because they were afraid that, without the British in on the deal to help outbalance German productive capacity, French industry would be swamped by Germany. But the French government had overcome this fear. Said one French diplomat last week: "In 1936, when Hitler occupied the Rhineland, we refrained from moving in because the British wouldn't come with us. Afterwards, the British told us, 'If you had marched, we should have been obliged to come with...