Differences, debates, win over, and temptations. As the outside world had previously speculated, the first four-day World Nuclear Summit became a stage for competition for major powers. In name, countries reached a basic consensus on the ban on nuclear weapons in a comprehensive manner, but because they could not agree on issues such as nuclear expert management, nuclear technology control, nuclear facility supervision and nuclear weapons destruction, the formulation and signing of the convention are still far away. Runners are trying to weaken the strength of potential opponents, and competitors set an equal starting line, while weak countries do not want to be slaughtered by others. The leaders of each have no choice but to agree to hold a second summit in four months.

After the nuclear weapons summit, Lynn did not return directly, but went to Nice for vacation at the private invitation of French Prime Minister Robert Schumann. Leaving London, the old and solid Aunt Juncker carried Lynn and his streamlined staff across the entire French mainland from north to south, and finally arrived at the warm Mediterranean shore. In Nice, although they were not warmly welcomed, they were not attacked by rotten eggs and stones. In terms of origin, France and Germany, the two European neighbors, left more hatred on each other than any other country, and their geographical location made each government handle the relationship between the two countries in a non-closet manner. Before the summit, Lynn and Schumann had never met, and the former had not participated in the invasion of France, the latter was born in Lorraine and was a German national in his early years. In 1919, with Alsace-Lorraine being included in France, these experiences allowed them to be privately allowed.

Exchanges were conducted without obstacles. Considering that France had taken away a large amount of wealth from Germany in 1945, materials and machinery and equipment acted as war compensation, and then had experiences fighting the Soviet Union side by side in the war between the East and West camps. The hostility caused by World War II has faded, and France and Germany have many common ground in terms of status quo and goals. At this stage, they are both committed to restoring the industrial economy that has been traumatized by war. Military, France no longer regards Germany as an imaginary enemy. The French army was aimed at the invincible Soviet army on land and the restless movements in Southeast Asian colonies, while Germany's national defense center is also on the east. Due to consensus in many aspects, Robert Schumann tried to "sell" his European Industrial Alliance concept to Lynn when he was in London (as the "father of Europe" in history. Robert Schumann made a very important contribution to the European integration process).

Since it is the European Industrial Alliance, France and Germany alone are not enough to take the lead. Those who accepted the invitation to Nice include Italian Prime Minister Alchede Gasbery, Dutch Prime Minister William Driss, Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Isgens, Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Dupeng. Several traditional European countries are far away in area, population, military and other data indicators, but their industrial or economic and trade strength before the war can be included in the ranks of power. In terms of steel alone, except for Germany's annual steel production of 23 million tons, France's 8 million tons, Belgium's 4 million tons, Luxembourg's 2.5 million tons and Italy's 1.7 million tons are all relatively close, while the Netherlands is the country with the highest financial and trade in Europe.

With its pre-war industrial strength ranking, Germany has an unparalleled advantage among these six countries. However, the continuous war and ruthless plunder have caused this traditional industrial power to lose more than 90% of its industrial facilities, and only solid technical concepts, outstanding technical workers and inherent industrial resources are at the brink of. France's situation is relatively good, but the stagnation during World War II and the slow development in four years after the war has caused France's current industrial output to not return to the pre-war level. Moreover, most industrial assembly lines have

Being outdated, products mainly meet some of the needs of their own country and lack competitiveness in the international market; Italy's situation is similar to France. The economy and industry recover slowly in the four years after the war, and the unemployment rate of workers has led to social turmoil. The country is full of American goods of good quality and low price, and its own industries are difficult to compete with. As for small and medium-sized Western European countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, their local economies were greatly affected during World War II. Without strong capital injection, the recovery situation was not ideal.

Everyone understands this simple truth. However, when people rise to the level of countries, cooperation is not as simple as a few people working together to carry things. The most tragic war in human history has ended soon. France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg and other invaded countries still have grudges against the invaders, and the industrial structure, standards and enterprise conditions of various countries are also uneven, which have created practical obstacles to the establishment of multinational industrial alliances.

During the informal talks in Nice, the leaders showed some interest in Robert Schumann's alliance proposal based on their own interests and weighed the overall environment in which the country was located. However, "poor" countries are easy to accept changes, and countries with better self-feeling are different. Italian Prime Minister Gasbery listed a lot of difficulties: the country's steel industry is extremely fragmented, and there are generally regional differences in product specifications, pricing policies and sales strategies. Once integrated, they will be affected by the problems of workers' increase or decrease and treatment adjustments. These uncertainties may cause great trouble to the Italian government.

Although the attitude of the Italian prime minister was offensive, the attitude of the heads of the other three countries was not clear≈En still felt that he had benefited a lot during his stay in Nice. He quickly returned to Germany with the French proposal and discussed with Sperer, the top adviser sent by the Imperial Base Camp. From the perspective of German industrial revival, the European Industrial Alliance is beneficial and harmless, and with the management level, technical content and national character of German enterprises, he will definitely occupy an important position in this alliance in time. It is still extremely deterrent in the Soviet Union.

In the meantime, Europe, where economy, politics and military is integrated, can play a greater role in hindrance, which is also something the United States and Britain are happy to see. However, the Free Empire, which was entrenched in Nordic, was awaiting the opportunity, cast a fog on the future of Germany, and no one can determine when and how the imperial power with hundreds of thousands of elite corps as the core will return to Germany in what way. If the two are added directly, the empire's industrial facilities in northern Norway will inject valuable impetus into Germany's reconstruction and have an immeasurable impact on national politics and military.

Lynn, sitting on the throne of the president, was far from the real master of this country. After discussing with Sperer, he reported these situations in detail to the Imperial Base Camp, while following the constitutional restrictions on the presidential power, he handed over the proposal of the French government to the government cabinet for processing. In Lynn's view, if it was a period of tide, the cabinet led by the must-have may not be willing to accept the Europeanized industrial alliance. However, at this time, the German industrial economy almost started from scratch. It was difficult for the German government or financial institutions to provide sufficient construction funds in the short term. The industry as a whole was like a mule staggering forward in the mud, and it was difficult to increase the speed even if it was done with all its might. The alliance was at least a good stopgap measure at present.

After cabinet discussions and consulting some big entrepreneurs, German Chancellor Willie Stock decided to respond to the European Industrial Alliance plan proposed by French Prime Minister Schumann. With this important response, France officially put the alliance plan on the stage, and Washington and Moscow also made completely opposite statements - the US government believes that this move can improve the overall industrial efficiency of European countries and help alleviate the economic and social difficulties of various countries. The Soviet Union believed that this move violated the clause in the agreement that Western allies must not expand their power eastward, and was a wrong move to reorganize Western European arms and threaten the security of the Soviet Union, and demanded that France stop this plan. Regarding the Soviet protest, France explained through diplomatic channels, insisting that this was just a means for European democracies to carry out mutual assistance in industrial economics, and proposed that the Soviet Union could also join this industrial alliance as long as the conditions were appropriate.

In addition to resistance from the Soviet Union, the Italian government's statement also poured cold water on the head of the enthusiastic French. Gasbery declared that Italy would not participate in the so-called alliance at the risk of harming the interests of its own steel enterprises and workers. Moreover, the Italian government has formulated an ambitious industrial development plan. In the next ten years, Italy's steel, electricity, automobiles and ship production will increase by one to four times respectively, fully meeting the needs of southern and southeastern European countries. Although Belgium and Luxembourg do not refuse to participate in the industrial alliance, they expressed their positive attitude towards the German government that once German industry recovers rapidly, it will not only intensify trade competition among countries, but also provide a material basis for Germany's reorganization of its arms, which will lead to Europe facing the threat of war again.

Seeing that the European Industrial Alliance plan was about to abort due to obstacles from all parties, French Prime Minister Robert Schumann actively called on the US Secretary of State to visit Belgium and other countries in person. Britain, which had always resisted cooperation with the European Union, gave a tolerant silence. In this case, Luxembourg, a "small steel strongman", relaxed, and the Dutch government also expressed its willingness to join the Industrial Alliance and use its own trade resources to provide support to the alliance. Another European country, Hungary, which was not invited at first, actively expressed its willingness to participate after learning about the Industrial Alliance plan. Although it is a landlocked country dominated by agriculture and a defeated country in World War II, it also has some decent industrial infrastructure. Before the Soviet army retreated, it had no time to conduct a comprehensive plunder like in Germany. It is still close to 400,000 tons of steel production capacity, but Hungary lacks its own mineral resources, and expanding the scale of industrial scale must rely on resource imports.

After formal diplomatic consultation, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were the first to sign the framework agreement, and decided to unite the coal and steel industry departments of European countries based on the coal and steel industries of France, Germany and Luxembourg, and jointly manage it by a supranational senior agency. Hungary and Belgium successively joined the framework agreement, and countries sent government representatives to France to discuss the specific details of the industrial alliance. (To be continued., vote for recommendations, monthly votes,,.
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