Word: schumann
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Jean Blondeel, assistant general counsel of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight at Langdell Hall for the Law Forum's second program this fall, "A Peaceful Revolution--The Schumann Plan...
Blondeel's office administers the antimonopoly provisions of the Schumann Plan in Europe. Tonight he will discuss the Plan as a possible forerunner of a European Federation and will outline its place in such a Federation. Blondeel will outline the powers of the High Authority in relation to specific problems faced by the European Coal and Steel Community in carrying out the aims of their treaty. He will discuss links with the European Defense Community and the European Political Community...
...customary fashion, France's Deputy Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann set out on an oratorical tour of the cold-war world one day last week from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly. Suddenly he put down for a surprise landing in Indo-China. Was it not possible, he asked, to negotiate an end to the seven-year-old Indo-China...
Perhaps, said Schumann, Russia and Red China would be willing to discuss a negotiated Indo-China peace at the impending Korean peace conference, or right after it. "Certain unofficial declarations," said he, "might have led to the thought that the two powers which . . . inspire and arm the Viet Minh [Communist] rebels were disposed to consider the opening of negotiations to put an end to the war." From France, Schumann's boss,Premier Laniel, uttered similar sentiments. "A strong people is not dishonored by negotiating," said the Premier...
...double aid to the French in Indo-China, and France's promise of a vigorous new military effort to beat the Reds (TIME, Sept. 28), the report shocked U.S. policymakers. "State Department officials were hopping mad," one correspondent reported. But when they read the complete text of Schumann's remarks and heard the hasty explanations of French officials,U.S. diplomats calmed down. Paris was still solidly behind General Henri Navarre's "We must attack" program for Indo-China, the French explained, but Paris was also hopeful that successful military operations might force Viet Minh Leader...