biography
pronunciation:
[shooman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1886–1963)
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| biography:
| French statesman and prime minister (1947–8), born in Luxembourg. He held several government posts after World War 2, and as foreign minister (1948–52) proposed the Schuman plan (1950) for pooling the coal and steel resources of West Europe, which came to fruition in the European Coal and Steel Community. He was president of the EEC Assembly (1958–60). |
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