Europe: Then Will It Live . . .

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are the political parties and the trade unions," and the committee's membership reads like a Who's Who in European politics and labor. Thus when Monnet proposes an idea, the governments of the Six know it already has the backing of an impressive group of politicians and labor leaders. His most recent proposal: a plan for a European monetary reserve fund, leading eventually to a common, single European currency.

Ahead is an even greater dream—an Atlantic Community in which the U.S. and Europe will be full partners. No one realizes better than Monnet the meaning of such an Atlantic union for the fractious, fragmenting world, chaos-riven as it is from the East River to Elisabethville, from Berlin to Namone. "Union is not an end in itself," says Monnet. "It is the beginning on the road to the more orderly world we must have in order to escape destruction. The partnership of Europe and the United States should create a new force for peace."

*Recalling Goethe's lines:

Ein echtcr dcutscher Mann mag kcincn

Franzen leiden,

Dock ihre Weine trlnkt er gern.

(A real German cannot abide a Frenchman,

Yet he likes to drink his wines.)