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NEW BOOK shows: On 5 May1949,
at St James's Palace, London, Schuman announced to all Foreign Ministers
of the Council of Europe and all foreign ambassadors present that European
cooperation would soon lead to a Community, 'a
vast and enduring SUPRANATIONAL union'. It
would ensure the peace and independence of democratic countries by mutual
support and agreement. It would encourage positive patriotism.
On
16 May 1949 in Strasbourg, he explained that this 'great
experiment' would fulfil the dream of Europeans over
ten centuries for 'enduring peace'.
A 'European Community' would
reconcile nations in a 'supranational
association'. He concluded: 'This
new policy probably constitutes the supreme attempt to save our continent
and preserve the world from suicide.'
He announced the COMING
CENTURY OF SUPRANATIONAL COMMUNITIES: Extracts of speech.
On 9 May1950, he
presented the SCHUMAN PROPOSAL, after French Government's
favourable Decision, to Parliament. Then he made a suprise announcement
on the radio and explained it before the world's press. It invited all
European countries to join in the 'gathering
of European nations' by creating a supranational
European Community based on a democratic European
rule of law at first in the coal and steel sector. It would make war
not only unthinkable but materially impossible, and reconcile, unify, develop,
transform Europe and serve its populations and world development in prosperity
and peace.
On 18
April 1951: Six founder Member States, after signing the
Treaty that had been voted in all their Parliaments, pledged that this,
the 'first supranational institution,' laid
the TRUE FOUNDATION
for an organised Europe 'open
to all states that are free to decide'.
These speeches are reproduced in the NEW Book:
'Schuman or Monnet? The real Architect of
Europe'
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