[Mojave]

“Europe’s nations should be guided towards a super state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.” —Adrian Hilton’s characterization of Jean Monnet’s plan

[calcowgirl]

“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection (...). The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.”
--Jean Monnet, the “father of the European Community”, August 5, 1943

Here is a summary from the John Kerry archives -- his daddy was a buddy of Jean Monnet: John Kerry’s Red Roots: Richard Kerry’s Left-Wing Legacy

Jean Monnet

Businessman representing French interests in US; financial advisor to Allies on war mobilization, 1940-1945; promoted European unification after 1945 through means such as the European Coal and Steel Community, European Defense Community, and Bilderberg Group

Worked with Frankfurter, McCloy, and Acheson during World War II; joined Acheson and George Ball in promoting “Atlantic Partnership” model of US-European relations after war

Met Richard Kerry and influenced his foreign policy views on NATO and European unification