Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, right, and author of the Pool Plan chats with Jean Monnet of France, Chairman of the Pool's high authority after the opening session on Sept. 8, 1952. The meeting was the first to be held since the formation of the top-level organising bodies of the pool and their installation in Luxembourg and was attended by the ministers of foreign affairs and of economic affairs of the six nations in the pool. (AP Photo)
