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'A chance to seize' from Tribune (19 May 1950)
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Press article
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A chance to seize, in Tribune. 19.05.1950, No 697, p. 3; 4.
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Federal Republic of Germany, France, iron and steel industry, Ruhr issue, Saar issue, steel, United Kingdom, United States
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| Copyright |
© Tribune Publications Ltd
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On 19 May 1950, the British weekly Tribune emphasises the importance of British participation in implementing the European plan for the pooling of coal and steel production in Western Europe.
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| Location in the digital library |
SPECIAL FILES >> From the origins of the Schuman Plan to the ECSC Treaty >> The declaration of 9 May 1950 >> The Schuman Plan and Franco-British relations
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1950–1956 The formation of the community of Europe >> The birth of the community of Europe >> The declaration of 9 May 1950 >> Reactions to the 9 May 1950 declaration >> In the United Kingdom
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| Document extract |
A Chance to Seize
The startling manner in which the French published their proposal for a merger of the coal and steel industries of Western Europe together with the fact that Germany was the first country invited to participate in the scheme, made it inevitable that world attention should at first have focussed on its political significance rather than its economic implications. But it is difficult to say which of the two aspects, the political or the economic, is the more important. Ever since the end of the war the attempt to agree on an enlightened and progressive policy towards G e r m a n y has been jeopardised, not only by the basic conflict between Soviet Russia and the West and the resulting division of Germany, but also by the irreconcilability of the French demands for security and the Anglo-American insistence on the need to restore Western Germany's economic and political independence. The menace, as the French saw it, did not so much lie in the danger of German rearmament and the resurgence of Germany's militarism, as in the potential economic and political preponderance which Western Germany might achieve on the Continent thanks to the great physical resources of the Ruhr area, the skill and hard-working habits of the German people and the explosive pressure of over-population brought about by the influx of (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Convention on relations between the Three Powers and the FRG (Bonn, 26 May 1952)
Convention on the presence of foreign forces in the FRG (Paris, 23 October 1954)
Signing of the Single European Act (Luxembourg, 17 February 1986)
The Saar Treaty (27 October 1956)
Saar steel production (1945_1959)
Franco_German relations
Carine Germond, France, Germany and Britain’s Second Application to the European Community (1966_1969)
Chronology of events in Suez (1951_1957)
Notes of reply from the three Western Powers (19 November 1970)
Franco_German problems
Cartoon by Mansbridge on France’s opposition to the free trade area (26 November 1958)
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