Talk:Robert Schuman

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Can we have some detail on why he might become a saint? &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 16:35, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

He never married. At one stage he appears to have contemplated marriage but the war intervened. He later devoted himself full time to his work and vocation.

His father was a Reichsdeutscher (German national)?. His mother luxembourgish? (check).

Also, it should be confirmed his exact role in the WWI - Wehrmacht or civil service ? - Title - Functions

Regarding the nationality of his parents and his role in the WWI, there are several versions.

http://www.robert-schuman.org/gb/robert-schuman/biographie2an.htm

German by birth?
He was born in lucembourgiaeClausen, in Luxembourg; since Luxembourg was not part of the German Empire, he could not have been German by birth. Does it mean that he was German from birth, on account of his father's nationality? Bastin 12:44, 2 July 2006 (UTC)he was helpless to the ussr

Nationality
Yes. Germany applied and mostly still apply Jus sanguinis.

While Germany did and does follow Jus sanguinis, you automatically renounce German nationality when taking on another one. So the conclusion is no. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.132.242.1 (talk) 14:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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Munich Agreement
What was the role of Mr. Schuman in Munich Agreement? As I read he voted for this act of betrayal of Czechoslovakia(an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland). It is not very good act for the person who is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union, including Czech and Slovak republic now. What can people of Czech and Slovak republic think about such a person who betrayed them once? Do you know more about this dark side of Mr. Schuman? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.36.87.81 (talk) 08:48, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Joined the French Resistance? When?
Please, could you provide some proof that Schuman ever joined the French resistance (let alone "re-joined")? Schuman was a "Marechalist", a partisan of Marechal Pétain and he was charged after the war with collaboration with the Germans. He was never convicted, but to turn him into a Resistance fighter, I think, is going too far in this shocking whitewashing of someone whose bio is so well known... Please, correct this. It's shameful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.213.205.18 (talk) 19:03, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Was Robert Schuman paid by OSS ?
A paper by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Telegraph on the 19th September 2000 says :
 * DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement.
 * The leaders of the European Movement - Retinger, the visionary Robert Schuman and the former Belgian prime minister Paul-Henri Spaak - were all treated as hired hands by their American sponsors. The US role was handled as a covert operation. ACUE's funding came from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations as well as business groups with close ties to the US government.
 * The leaders of the European Movement - Retinger, the visionary Robert Schuman and the former Belgian prime minister Paul-Henri Spaak - were all treated as hired hands by their American sponsors. The US role was handled as a covert operation. ACUE's funding came from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations as well as business groups with close ties to the US government.

Could someone verify this information ? and eventually complete the page on Robert Schuman --Neimault (talk) 12:59, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Old news "OSS, CIA and European unity: The American committee on United Europe, 1948-60

Richard J. Aldrich, University of Nottingham, Online Publication Date: 01 March 1997"

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/publications/oss_cia_united_europe_eec_eu.pdf

"After 1945, a variety of Western organizations, not just intelligence agencies, drew up programmes of covert operations designed both to undermine Communist influence in Europe and to ensure a welcome for the Marshall Plan. [..] One of the most interesting US covert operations in postwar Europe was the funding of the European Movement. [..] It will be argued here that the discreet injection of over three million dollars between 1949 and 1960, mostly from US government sources, was central to efforts to drum up mass support for the Schuman Plan." But it's the other way round, Europeans searching for funds, were given it when the US agreed with them and they agreed with the US. It was kept secret so the UK kept believing in the special relationship, or because they supported some political parties and not others.

QuentinUK (talk) 13:44, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

German sergeant
Was he not a sergeant in his brief stint in the German Army? I seem to recall this was later used at his expense, the joke being that to have been a commissioned officer could have been excused as an accident of birth, but to have been a sergeant suggested (rightly or wrongly) a certain degree of keenness.Paulturtle (talk) 13:38, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

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