Abstract

Reactions to the Schuman Plan: A Socialist Answer

The British government this week has found itself thrust into the international dog-house, denounced on all sides as the doctrinaire, isolationist saboteur of European unity. It is in this unenviable position partly as a result of the infernally clever tactics of French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, partly because of its own lack of finesse and poor sense of timing Prime Minister Clement Richard Attlee's firm but conciliatory explanation of his government's inability to accept the French terms for participation in the Schuman Plan conference would have caused little outcry if the Labor Party Executive had not chosen this exact moment to publish its foreign-policy statement, which gave joy to anti-Socialists everywhere.