Word: unificationism
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Italy was the pleasantest stop. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, one of the most zealous champions of European unification, virtually guaranteed that Italy would approve the European defense treaty.
Firmer Assurances. Robert Schuman, who has defended European unification through ten governments, was angry. Mayer had gone too far. The Gaullists thought he had not gone far enough.
Personality: Softspoken, stocky, with white-streaked black hair and heavy eyebrows, a conservative, old-line unionist who likes a round-table conference but dislikes public speechmaking. He is the Cabinet's only Roman Catholic, is vice president of the Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems, goes to Mass every morning...
This note of sweet reason, however came at an awkward time. In a series of closed sessions before this week's C.I.O. convention at Atlantic City, C.I.O. bigwigs had failed to reach a behind-the-scenes settlement of the rivalry between the two leading candidates to succeed the late...
"Within half a century," he predicted ". . . the whole face of the planet will have been unified politically through the concentration of irresistible military power in some single set of hands." Whether this unification will come through a world war or without it, he would not say. Nor was he ready...