Treaty of Paris comes into force - Common Assembly of the ECSC - 1952

Treaty of Paris comes into force - Common Assembly of the ECSC

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The following session of the Assembly  opens in atmosphere of excitement.

The President calls the meeting to order.

This session is opened.  Before commencing the discussion on...

Then he reveals the importance  of the subject

which is up for discussion  by naming the principal speakers:

they are the foreign Ministers  of Germany, Belgium, France and Italy.

Symbolic of their desire  to solve their nations’ problems jointly,

Konrad Adenauer,  Chancellor of Western Germany;

Paul van Zeeland,  foreign minister of Belgium;

Robert Schuman,  foreign minister of France;

and Alcide De Gasperi,  Prime Minister of Italy.

Correspondents know  that this is a front page story.

Schuman's just started to speak.  -Oh Lord, off we go.

France’s foreign minister, Robert Schuman,

is the author of the bold imaginative plan  which bears his name.

It is the key of the future of Europe,  economic as well as political.