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The role of Jean Monnet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Richard Mayne
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The future historian of European integration is likely to suffer from a surplus of documentation and a shortage of facts. If a certain kind of ignorance, as Lytton Strachey once remarked, is essential to the writing of intelligible history, it has little hope of survival amid the vast accumulation of newspaper cuttings, official statistics, policy speeches, annual reports and statesmen's memoirs with which the present-day scholar must contend. One expert has calculated that ‘the volume of official documents produced by the United Kingdom Government and its agencies during the six war years 1939–45 equalled, in cubic content, the volume of all previous archives of the United Kingdom and of its constituent kingdoms England and Scotland that had survived down to the date of the outbreak of war.’

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Government and Opposition , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1967 , pp. 349 - 371
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1967

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12 Text in L'Année Politique 1950, Paris, 1951, pp. 355–59.

13 On 7 May 1950, in New York, General Clay, former American Commander‐in‐Chief in Germany, proposed re‐arming the Federal Republic.

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24 Cmd. 7970 (cf. Note 16, above), p. 10.

25 Ibid., pp. 11 ff.

26 In a lecture given in 1953 at the College of Europe in Bruges.

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29 He himself took an enforced rest in the summer of 1954.

30 Private information.

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46 Ibid.

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48 Mayne, op. cit. (cf. Note 27, above), pp. 108,117–18.

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50 Ibid., pp. 11–12.

51 Ibid., pp. 13–14, 167–75.

52 ‘Setting the Pace for Unity’, Common Market, Vol. IV, No. 6, the Hague, June 1964, pp. 104–6 (p. 106); for an analysis of the committee's membership and operations, cf. Yondorf, Walter, ‘Monnet and the Action Committee: the Formative Period of the European Communities’, International Organization, Vol. XIX, No. 4, 1965, pp. 885–912.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

53 Cf. Recueil (Note 78, above), passim.

54 Personal knowledge.

55 The German socialists had voted against the ECSC, and the French Socialist Party had been split over EDC.

56 Cf. Mayne, op. cit. (Note 27, above), p. 113.

57 Cf. Camps, Miriam, European Unification in the Sixties, New York, 1966, pp. 62 ff.; John Newhouse, unpublished paper in the ‘Tocqueville Series’, passim. For German, Dutch, and Italian positions, cf. Recueil (Note 28, above), p. 136.Google Scholar