The Schuman Plan Collection

The Schuman Plan Collection (+/- 35 documents in original languages)
This collection of documents relects some of the European concerns with the future of European integration and the first attempt to realise this with concrete plans for Coal and Steel.

• Note de reflexion de Jean Monnet , Alger, le 5 aout 1943 (5.8.1943). Jean Monnet' reflections, written whilst with the Free French government, on the future of postwar Europe and on the need for a new organisation for heavy industry. [Language French] 
• The Secretary of State to the Embassy in France (19.9.1949) US relections on the future leadership of Europe. [Language English] 
• Cabinet Memorandum (26.10.1949) British cabinet memorandum covering its policy towards 'integration' in anticipation of ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman' speech. [Language English]
• The Hoffman Speech (31.10.1949) Hoffman's speech before the OEEC council calling for greater integration in Europe. [Language English]
• Statistics Coal and Steel Output 1949 .[Language Dutch]
• Neuvième projet pour le Plan Schuman (projet définitif) (6.5.1950). The last draft of a project for a European coal and steel community prepared by Jean Monnet's staff at the French Planning Office. [Language French]
• The Schuman Plan Declaration (9.5.1950). Translation of the text of Schuman's radio announcement of a French-German pool for coal and steel. [Language English]
• Photographs of Konrad Adenauer (Germany) Joseph Bech (Luxembourg) Alcide de Gasperi (Italy) Jean Monnet (France) Robert Schuman (France) Dirk Stikker (Netherlands) Paul van Zeeland (Belgium)
• The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State (10.5.1950) US Secretary of State Dean Acheson reports back to Washington his reaction to the Schuman Plan. [Language English]
• Record of a Meeting at No. I Carlton Gardens, 10 May I950 (10.5.1950) Small ministerial meeting indication the first British reaction to Schuman's announcement. [Language English] 
• Note from Sir R. Makins to Mr. Bevin (19.5.1950) Recommendations of British officials on the Schuman Plan. [Language English]
• Ministerraad. Notulen (22.5.1950). Minutes of the Dutch cabinet articulating doubts about the supranational elements in the Schuman Plan. [Language Dutch]
• Minutes of Cabinet (2.6.1950) The cabinet meeting deciding against British participation in the Schuman Plan. [Language English]
• Instructie voor de delegatie (2.6.1950). Instructions for the Dutch delegation to the first talks on the Schuman Plan amking clear that participation was conditional on placing the ECSC under some form of parliamentary of national control. [Language Dutch] 
• Verslag van de bespreking te Brussel op woensdag 7 juni inzake Schuman-plan. Report of the Dutch delegation on the opening talks on the Schuman Plan. [Language Dutch]
• La position de la sidérurgie belgo-luxembourgeoise à l'égard du Plan Schuman (15.6.50) Belgian government report on the problems posed for the steel industry by the Schuman Plan. {Language French]
• Note sur le Plan Schuman et ses repercussions possibles sur la siderurgie Belge (17.6.1950) Note prepared by the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs on the repercussions of the Scuman Plan on Belgian steel industry. [Language French]
• Document de Travail (24.6.1950) The draft articles prepared by Monnet to serve as a basis for the negotiations on the Schuman Plan. [Language French] 
• Vertraulich Archiv sammlung Nr. Kab/1/ (late June 1950) Report to the German cabinet on the initial talks with the French. [Language German]
• Nota inzake de Nederlandse deelneming aan de besprekingen betreffende het Plan Schuman (10.7.1950) Dutch cabinet document preparing the government's position towards the Schuman Plan. [Language Dutch]
• Verslag inzake besprekingen betreffende het plan Schuman (17.7.1950) Report of the Dutch delegation on the progress of preliminary talks on the Schuman Plan. [Language Dutch]
• The Secretary of State to the Embassy in France (3.8.1950) US concerns about the impact of its demands for European rearmament on the ECSC provisions. [Language English]
• Position de l'industrie charbonnierre Belge a l'egard du plan Schuman au terme de la premiere session de negociations (20 juin au 10 août 1950) (18.8.1950) The Belgian coal industry expresses its concerns to the Belgian government. [Language French]
• Protokoll der internen Delegationssitzung (25.8.1950) German delegation to the schuman Plan negotiations taking stock of the state of play. [Language German]
• Besprechung von Prof. Dr. Hallstein, Dr. Boden, Dr. Bauer, Dr. von Marchtaler mit den Herren Monnet, Uri, zum grösseren Teil Hirsch (31.8.1950) Report on bilateral Franco-German talks. [Language German]
• Verbindung zur Alliierten Hohen Kommission , Bonn (23.9.1950) Letter from Adenauer to the French member of the Allied High Commission complaining about the anti-catrel and -concentration proposals of the French. [Language German]
• Niederschrift über die Sitzung des interministeriellen Ausschusses für den Schumanplan am 19.10.1950 (26.10.1950) Reflections of german ministers on the state of play in the Schuman Plan negotiations. [Language German]
• Propositions relatives à la mise en oevre du plan Schuman en ce qui concerne les accords et pratiques restrictives ou tendant à la constitution de monopoles (27.10.1950) The reaction of the Belgian government to Monnet's proposals for anti-cartel and monopoly clauses in the ECSC treaty. [Language French] 
• Stand van de besprekingen over het plan Schuman per 28 october 1950 (30.10.1950) Official Dutch assessment of the state of play in the negotiations at the end of October 1950. [Language Dutch]
• Verbindung zur Alliierten Hohen Kommission, Bonn (3.11.1950) Adenauer offers US mmember fo the Allied High Commission alternative anti-cartel proposals. [Language German]
• Note pour Monsieur le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères (7.12.1950) Reflections of officials in Luxembourg on the implications of the state of play for Luxembourg. [Language french] 
• Notulen van de Raad voor Economische Aangelegenheden. (5.1.1951) Minutes of the Economic sub-committee of the Dutch cabinet at the start of 1951. [Language Dutch]
• Briefing Paper Drafted in the office of the United States High Commissioner for Germany, Frankfurt (2.2.1951) Reflections of the US member of the Allied High Commission on Germany and the Schuman Plan. [Language English]
• KURZPROTOKOLL über Besprechung mit Herrn Hirsch im Plannungsamt (15.2.1950) A bilateral Franco-German agreement on the supply of German coal for French industry. [Language German]
• The United States High Commissioner for Germany (McCloy) to the Secretary of State (15.3.1951) Report on German attitutes to the terms of the ECSC treaty. [Language English]
• Principales observations de l'industrie charbonniere Belge a l'égard des projets de traite et de convention instituant la communaute Europenne du charbon et de l'acier (30.3.1951) Reaction of the Belgian coal industry to the draft Treaty. [Language French] 
  
• Ministerconferentie Plan Schuman, Parijs, 12-18 april 1951 (17.5.1951) Dutch delegation report of the final ministers' conference agreeing th ECSC treaty. [Language Dutch]
• Photograph at the signing of the Treaty of Paris
• Treaty of Paris (May 1951) In all community languages. 
• Details of the votes in the various ratification debates on the Treaty of Paris. [Language Dutch]