After years of high hope, fine talk and hard work, about all that is left of the great postwar dream of European unity is a diminishing gleam in the eyes of thousands of "good Europeans" and one big tangible fact: the Schuman Coal-Steel Community, which pools the coal and steel of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. Last week the Council of Ministers of the Community met in the Sicilian city of Messina.
Out with "Mr. Europe." First item on the agenda was the election of a new president to replace Jean Monnet, the indefatigable little Frenchman who first...
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