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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...
NATO's champion fire-eater is Marshal Juin of France, commander of its Central European ground forces and one of the Allies' sharpest World War II fighting men. Last week, addressing reserve officers at Strasbourg, this field-soldier son of a policeman offered a chilling counterblast to Europe's growing complacency...
...interruption was as welcome as a short snort at sundown. All day the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg last week, had been debating Europe's chronic dollar deficit, and at length Britain's Scottish-born Robert Boothby took the floor: "We can expand, I think, the export of certain specialties to the U.S. . . In this respect my own country is rather fortunate. In Scotland we manufacture the highest quality tweeds and we make the highest quality whisky, the best whisky in the world...
...Scotch whisky" to Representative Boothby. Dublin's Irish whisky distillers sent two cases of its finest to Representative Boland. Asked to preside over the High Authority of a European Whisky Pool, Boothby eagerly accepted. There will be further (informal) deliberations just as soon as the stuff arrives in Strasbourg...
...Schuman Plan's chief purpose is economic, i.e., to pool coal & steel resources, and to carry out this aim, the members have set up a High Authority (a kind of executive office), a Council of Ministers (a kind of cabinet) and an Assembly (a kind of parliament). In Strasbourg last week, the Assembly met for the first time and forthwith decided to go beyond economics into the business of political unity. That job was really up to the Assembly of the projected European Defense Community, but the Schuman people were in no mood to wait. The Assembly voted overwhelmingly...