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Most observers of the European scene class De Gasperi-along with such men as Germany's Adenauer, France's Schuman and Belgium's Spaak-as a topflight and selfless statesman-politician. Few would call him a "great man." But time & again he has been paid a handsome tribute in a land where the simple goodness of a Francis of Assisi, the Italians' patron saint, is more admired than the brilliance of a Thomas Aquinas."He is a good man," explains one Italian. "He means what he says.""De Gasperi," said a top U.S. diplomat...
...will not try to conceal the emotion which assails me at this moment," said Paul-Henri Spaak, the plump Belgian Socialist who looks like Winston Churchill. "Not ten years ago, the countries represented here . . . had but one thought: to destroy each other as completely as possible . . . We recovered, we pulled ourselves together; and while forgetting nothing-for to do so would be profane-we resolved to set forth on the great adventure . . . Therefore, this draft treaty is not only a moving message of reconciliation; it is an act of confidence in the future...
...Spaak, tears in his eyes, was addressing a European Constitutional Assembly gathered last week in the horsehide-paneled chamber of Strasbourg's Palais de 1'Europe. As chairman of a committee charged with drafting a constitution for a United States of Europe, he presented the Assembly with 116 Articles bound in a blue leather volume. If approved by the six governments and parliaments of "Little Europe,"* the constitution would establish a supranational U.S.E. sustained by a population equal to the U.S.A. (155 million), nourished by the coal & steel of the Schuman Plan, defended by the soldiers...
Europe's Washington. Paul-Henri Spaak had played James Madison's part in drafting the constitution; now he saw himself as George Washington. He even quoted Washington ("Individuals entering society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest"), and advised the six Foreign Ministers who attended the Assembly to follow the U.S.'s example. "If we show the same boldness . . . there is no sound reason why we should not achieve the same success. Ours alone is the task . . . of giving back to the Old Europe her strength, her greatness and glory . . . We can carry...
...dealt and held his own with such formidable and experienced personalities as Britain's Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery and General Lord Ismay, France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, Marshal Alphonse Juin and the late General de Lattre de Tassigny, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, Portugal's Premier Salazar, Italy's Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. From Oslo to Lisbon to Ankara, Eisenhower impressed himself on governments and peoples as the unifying leader in resistance to Communism...