“We are not forming coalitions of states, we are uniting men”

“I am not an optimist; I am determined”

“To create Europe is to create peace”

“There are two categories of men: those who want to be someone and those who want to do something.” It there was ever a man who could be placed in the second category without hesitation, Monnet is that man. In fact, he agreed wholeheartedly, adding, “There is Iesscompetition.”

Jean Monnet was named Secretary General of the League of Nations upon its creation in 1919, at the age of thirty-one, by Clémenceau and Balfour.

Initially commissioned in 1938 by Edouard Daladier to negotiate an order for French military aircraft with the United States, Jean Monnet was sent to London in December 1939 by the French and British governments.

When the French were defeated in June

1940, Monnet’s influence inspired de

Gaulle and Churchill to accept the plan

for the total union of France and the

United Kingdom — a fusion which was to

enable the two countries to stand up to

Nazism — whereas Pétain accepted the

defeat of France and signed the armistice.

In August 1940, Jean Monnet was sent to

the United States by the British government

as a member of the British Supply Council,

in order to negotiate the purchase of war

supplies. Soon after his arrival in

Washington, he became one of President

Roosevelt’s most trusted advisers. He

persuaded the President to launch a

massive arms production programme to supply the Allies with military material.

Private Keith yeo zheng yuan(leader)

Private Austen poh yu heng(member)

Private S.Sharveendra(member)

Source/Refrences

http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/m

onnet.htm