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In 1950 the "Schuman Plan" proposed a supranational community for coal and steel.

One favorite for the job: Robert Schuman, whose "Schuman Plan" started it all.

Largely as a result of the Schuman Plan, and its creation of a common tariff-free market, Jean Monnet reported last week that: � Trade in coal and steel among the six countries has increased by 75% since 1952.

After consulting their home governments, the delegates of six nations met again in Paris last week to move the Schuman Plan a step nearer reality.

Speaking at Colchester, Britain's Secretary for War John Strachey called the Schuman Plan "this plot," and attacked the coal-steel authority as "an irresponsible international body free from all democratic control."