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...moves toward genuine integration-partly because Britain's Socialist government wanted nothing to do with the non-socialist economies on the Continent. Long before the Foreign Ministers met in London last week, it was amply clear that the British would not assume leadership of Western Europe. The Schuman plan-the most important act of Western statesmanship since the launching of the Marshall Plan-was a totally unexpected assertion that France could and would assume the leadership. It swept into the brains of Western policymakers like a gust of fresh wind into a musty study long unaired. It gave genuine...
...Foreign Ministers did not officially commit themselves on the Schuman plan, merely reaffirmed the West's intentions of guiding West Germany back into the community of nations. The Foreign Ministers said that there would not be a peace treaty with Germany as long as the Russians held on to the country's eastern half. Meanwhile, the conference assigned experts to work out a plan to ease the technical state of war which exists between the Allies and West Germany. As many occupation controls as possible would be lifted-according to "the rate at which Germany advances toward . . . true...
...conference produced no sensational results; but, chiefly thanks to shy Robert Schuman's bold initiative, the West's position seemed a great deal firmer and clearer than it had in some time. Reported TIME'S Washington Bureau: "Washington estimated tentatively that the Western Allies may be on the edge of their most important strategic breakthrough in the cold war since the Kremlin was forced, a year ago, to abandon the siege of Berlin...
...French cabinet listened attentively as Foreign Minister Robert Schuman reported a conversation he had had the day before with U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The Secretary, on his way to the London conference, had in effect said that Western Europe had bet ter get going in its conduct of the cold war and it had better lift its defenses out of the blueprint stage. As Schuman interpreted the Secretary's views, Acheson meant that everyone would have to make real sacrifices for a real defense system-and a real defense would be impossible if Western Germany were...
...Schuman summed up his own stand: "It has often been said that security is indivisible. In any case, security is not supernatural. One can't add to it by subtracting from...