... Monnet for Europe Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Introduction Man's finest profession is that of uniting men. — Saim-Exupery France, Bordeaux: World War I, end of September 1914—The French had been just able to stop the advance of the Germans on the river Marne. The French government had fled Paris and was functioning from Bordeaux, where confusion... for me. In fact, I only know events. I must admit that they have never failed me. But in order to seize them, one must be well prepared." 7 Monnet stayed in London till the end of World War I. He recounted in his Memoirs: Our small team was called upon to do miracles of improvisation, from day to day — whereas I never stopped insisting that only a joint overall organization... least Monnet had started to work on inter-allied co-operation. In 1939 Monnet went back to Paris. First of all he was asked to deal with the problem of the debt that France owed the USA since World War I. This was a difficult topic that poisoned the relation between France and America. Jean Monnet was sent back to Washington in order to negotiate. A passage of a letter from Bullit to the American ...
... 123·124, 125,202,239-240 see also World War I, II waste, 198,199,215 West, 25, 88 red evening of, 157 see also Europe Western civilization, 24 (fn), 41 , 42 , 56, 59,77-81, 114 , 127 -128, 140, 157 ,216 Wilson, H. H., 97(fn) woman, 102, 181, 185 in ancient India , 119 in politics, 181 her status with regard to man, 90 her subjection, 138 World War I, 124, 125 ,216 World War II , 211 ...
... Chronology August 1914 — Outbreak of World War I. September 2, 1914 —The German army has reached as far as 30 miles from the French capital. The French government abandons Paris and withdraws to Bordeaux. September 6 to 9, 1914 —Battle of the Marne. The German army is stopped by the French. November 11, 1918—Armistice ending World War I. June 28, 1919 — The Versailles Peace treaty imposes ...
... First World War remains a monument to what could have been, if the irrational and egocentric attitude of the Germans as a Volk had not been whipped up and given free rein by their Führer. “When World War I began, the Jews expressed their sense of German nationalism by swarming into the army with an ardour as lemming-like as that of the gentiles. Some 100 000 Jews (one out of every six, including the... could name families with seven or eight sons at the front”, writes Dietrich Bronder. Then he mentions the participation of the Jews in past German wars, and the high honours awarded to them. In World War I, 35 000 Jews were decorated, of whom 1000 with the Iron Cross 1st Class and 17 000 with the Iron Cross 2nd Class; 23 000 were promoted, 2000 to the rank of officer. 10 000 Jews entered the army as ...
... Research), from 1904 to 1939, with the interruption of World War I. Among his main research lines was the preservation of tissues outside the body and the application of this process to surgery. (A strain of chicken heart tissue was kept alive for more than 30 years by the use of his techniques). He returned to France during Page 68 World War I. He then developed, with a fellow researcher, the ...
... Foundation, 1996), p. 104. 8. Jean Monnet, Memoirs, op. cit., pp. 61-62. 9. Ibid, pp.83-84. 10. Ibid, pp. 96-97. 11. The treaty between the vanquished and the victors at the end of World War I which imposed heavy territorial, political and economical sanctions on Germany. 12. Francois Fontaine, "Plus loin avec Jean Monnet", in: Jacques Van Helmont and Francois Fontaine, Jean Monnet... Quoted by Francois Duchene in Jean Monnet, The first Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W. W. Norton &. Company, 1994), pp. 96-97. 14. The General Henri Giraud fought in Morocco during World War I. In 1940 at the beginning of World War II, he was made a prisoner. He escaped in 1942 and reached Algeria. There he was made "civil and military commander in chief" by people sympathizing with the ...
... on April 24, 1920. For thirty years she was going to work with Sri Aurobindo. We know her as "Mother." Two passages from letters Sri Aurobindo wrote to Mother in France, while World War I was raging:) May 6, 1915 One needs to have a calm heart, a settled will, entire self-abnegation and the eyes constantly fixed on the beyond to live undiscouraged in times like these ...
... sweetness", "the voice loved to linger", "half-angered", "a lovely slave rebellious who had erred", "touches soft" - are all such as would tend to occur in most poets from Spenser down to the period of World War I. To frown on this sort of writing as being "linguistic clutter" is to forget the Blakean beauty that is exuberance. Can there be a greater master of "linguistic clutter" than Shakespeare whenever ...
... is meant to give the impression of a decline and a fall of the life-force. But such an impression, apart from being indecisive in itself, is scarcely appropriate in a poem about young men dead in World War I: the sense of sudden violent death is not conveyed. If the previous rhyming phrase could somehow be managed in another fashion — say, "gone proud of friends" — the last line would close better with ...
... post. A Suffragette rushed out to the course and tried, as it were, to twist the horse's moustaches. She was knocked down but the animal too had a toss and the King lost the race. Soon after, World War I broke out. At once the Suffragettes laid down their militant umbrellas and threw themselves whole-heartedly into co-operation with their men. What the twisting of moustaches had failed to do, ...
... to capitalism or Marxism, occupied much of German thought during the Weimar Republic”, writes George Mosse. “Even earlier, toward the end of the post-unification period [i.e. the years preceding World War I], men had raised similar questions – in a more theoretical manner, but just as seriously. Indeed, the search for a viable ‘third way’ was an integral part of the völkisch concern … Disenchanted with ...
... integral divine transformation of life was a complete possibility and that Her life's work lay here beside Him. And the same She pursued incessantly (with an interruption during the years of the World War I) in her embodied form uptil the age of 96 and built up Sri Aurobindo's spiritual work from the very beginning to an international status in Sadhana, in education and in the construction of an in ...
... risky, someone should always be there to watch over your body. And as for teaching it to someone offhand—no. I did try once in France—with Hohlenberg, that painter who came here during the war [World War I] and then had to go back. 2 Page 58 He came to France and asked me. He absolutely insisted. He had read all Theon's stuff and was well up on everything and very anxious to try. So ...
... n for two or three months until we were well-stocked. I wrote to the Mother about their warnings. I said my own attitude was like that of Marshall Foch at the Battle of the Marne in World War I. Asked by Headquarters for a report of affairs at the front he wrote back: "My left wing is broken. My centre is crumbling. The situation is excellent. I am attacking." I wrote also that the Mother's ...
... Concerning the Sino-Indian conflict along the Himalayan border: ) X wrote N. to announce—in precise and almost violent terms—that it was the beginning of a general upheaval, a catastrophic world war. Page 413 I know it's the will of that Asura I've mentioned to you several times, the Lord of Falsehood who was born the Lord of Truth, and who knows that his hour is at hand ("at hand" relative to ...
... Sadhana independently followed the same course. When they met, they helped each other in perfecting the sadhana. What is known as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? 1 After the outbreak of the World War I in August, 1914, the Mother had to return to France along with Paul Richard and then she spent four years in Japan; but she returned for good to Pondicherry in 1920 in order to work with Sri Aurobindo ...
... known as Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the joint creation of Sri Aurobindo and the Page 140 Mother. (Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 26, p. 459) After the outbreak of the World War I in August, 1914, the Mother had to return to France along with Paul Richard and then she spent four years in Japan; but she returned for good to Pondicherry in 1920 in order to work with Sri Aurobindo ...
... . The things I work out in it, are then extended outside.¹ The Mother was giving a concrete shape to the idea of the 'laboratory', through 'L'ldee Nouvelle'.² In the meantime, however, World War I had broken out on the 1st of August 1914. Paul Richard was called to war, and this was the outward reason for departure from Pondicherry. While on board, the Kamo Maru, she described her terrible ...
... 31 expressing this ideal, had already run for over four years, the Mother had begun co-operating with Sri Aurobindo and, though she left in 1915 with her husband owing to the outbreak of World War I, she was expected to return, as she did in 1920. Some definite spiritual milestone of great moment must have been reached at the end of 1918 and required some immediate assistance in work. Such a ...
... not plenipotentiaries. NIRODBARAN: So all the previous news was rumour? SRI AUROBINDO: It comes to that. PURANI: It seems the meeting is being held in the same old cabin as at the end of World War I. The terms are about thirty typed pages. SRI AUROBINDO: Then there can't be any discussion? PURANI: Not likely. If in the meantime the Italian navy could be destroyed it would be a great gain ...
... aesthetic turn of mind or some ideas of social service they call him "spiritual". Disciple : When I first came across the use of the word "femme spirituelle" in France during the first World War, I took it in the Indian sense and it was later on that I came to know that it only meant any "witty" or "vivacious" girl. Sri Aurobindo : Because in French "esprit" means "mind", "wit" and ...
... will know better what a little cell was waiting for in the depths of its millions of years. Perhaps you will have walked the first step of the next species. In May 1916, in the middle of World War I, Page 17 Sri Aurobindo wrote: "The old gods are not dead, the old ideal of dominant Force conquering, governing and perfecting the world is still a vital reality and has not let ...
... press for its reign, but belongs to the future". 51 In regard, then, to the central human problem of achieving a concord between the two poles of Freedom and Unity (or Security) on a world basis. World War I was almost worse than useless; one more chapter in the annals of human history had concluded - but all had yet to be begun, for the human spirit had "still to find itself, its idea and its greater ...
... scene of Hitler’s career” on the Freinberg. “When in those terrible days of April 1945 I followed deeply shaken the battle for the Reich Chancellery which ended the world conflagration [the Second World War], I could not help thinking of the final scene in Rienzi , when the Tribune perishes in the flames of the burning capitol.” 917 ...
... France” became so to speak independent under an own government; a fifth part, in the south, was occupied by Italy as its share of the spoils. Hitler had realized the Kriegsziele (war aims) of World War I, and much more. In his mind there was never any doubt that France was there to be used, abused, and sucked dry. If he let Vichy France exist for the time being, it was only because he was too busy ...
... decade, during which he observed silence and lived on uncooked food. He also learnt French and translated many works into Tamil. 93. Haradhan hailed from Chandernagore. He was a soldier in World War I and settled in the Ashram in December 1930. Page 398 94. Rani was Bejoy Nag's wife. She was a very sweet and quiet person. 95. 'Here is what Sri Aurobindo wrote to Nirod: "The ...
... Uapres-midi d'un faune. Paul Verlaine (1844-96), French lyric poet belonging to the Symbolist movement. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), French symbolist poet. Dadaists : Post-World War I cultural movement in visual arts and literature. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), English classical scholar and lyric poet; author of A Shropshire Lad, etc. Vishnu Narayan ...
... occasions in the Mother’s life when she had tried to give shape to the dream in totally different circumstances. The ones we know of are the following. The first occasion had been before the Second World War. ‘I almost had the land. It was in the time of Sir Akbar, from Hyderabad.’ Akbar’s name may ring a bell with the reader, for he was the dewan (prime minister) of the Nizam who had been instrumental ...
... experience, which shows us that in every instance union differentiates." 5 And when, under the disguise of a "friend", he admits at the end of the three stories he wrote during the First World War: "I had always been by temperament a 'pantheist' " 6 - he hurries to append a footnote in the persona propria of a Jesuit priest who has to set himself right with his Church for so dubious an ...
... pantheised. Perhaps the most concrete illustration of the two-aspected result is in one of the three stories Teilhard wrote in connection with his service as a stretcher-bearer during World War I. The stories called "Christ in the World of Matter" are told about a "friend" before an engagement at Douaument in 1916, but, as the Editor's note says, "the 'friend' is clearly himself". 4 At one ...
... little, who are educated, who may think you a little eccentric, but still they understand what it means; but the ordinary man, no. I am speaking of fifty years ago, of course; now, after the Second [World] War, I don't know, I can't say if this has begun to change. But evidently, Page 311 the educated classes of Europe are now in search of something higher because their life has been so tragic ...
... on one's fingers. A most refined gentleman, and with an infinite patience to boot. He was then in his late forties, a handsome man, lean and tall—he stood over 1 m 90 in his socks. A veteran of World War I, he left all his bright prospects for an adventure into the unknown. First of all he went to Japan, then to a monastery in Mongolia as a Lama, from there he sailed for India, and landed at Pondicherry ...
... considered eating as tiring. Yes. Someone who understands! ( As if "by chance," Satprem reads Mother an old conversation, of January 24, 1961 , on the influenza epidemic in Japan during World War I. ) Page 259 And the best part of the story is that they've never had that type of influenza since. The Japanese are receptive people. They've learned so much from the Americans—it ...
... the Arya, expressing this ideal, had already run for over four years, the Mother had begun co-operating with Sri Aurobindo and, though she left in 1915 with her husband owing to the outbreak of World War I, she was expected to return, as she did in 1920. Some definite spiritual milestone of great moment must have been reached at the end of 1918 and required some immediate assistance in work. Such a ...
... Principia Mathematica. First volume published this year. — Lecturer in Mathematical Logic at Trinity College, Cambridge. 1914 — Public speaker and pamphleteer against World War I. 1916 — Fined in the Everett Case because of a pamphlet criticising a two-year sentence of a conscientious objector. — Loss of his lectureship at Trinity College ...
... Athens, Greece 877 7 20 4 1908 London, U.K 1000 36 23 5 1912 Stockholm, Sweden 2490 57 28 6 1916 Berlin, Germany Cancelled 'because of World War I 7 1920 Antwerp, Belgium 2543 64 29 8 1924 Paris, France 2956 136 44 9 1928 Amsterdam, Holland 2724 290 46 10 1932 Los Angeles, USA. ...
... of his magnum opus , The Life Divine . It was the end of 1939, the year of World War II. The publication of the Arya of which the Divine Life was the basic theme, started in 1914, the year of World War I. Can we call these mere coincidences? The two other volumes came out on the heels of the first one and were extensively rewritten. He composed many sonnets also. We used to see his pen indefatigably ...
... Watson-Watt, Sir Robert, 251-2 Wave mechanics, 316 Wells, H. G., 140 Whitehead, A. N., 345-6 Wordsworth, 183, 194 World Review, the, 353 World War I, 101, 373 YADUPATI,91 Yajnavalkya, 160, 167,200,259 Yama, 381 Yeats, 152, 195 Yudhisthira, 93 ZEUS, 24, 123,220,222 Zola, 145 ...
... Vision, premonitory, 30 Vital, 75, 82, 254-6 Vital, descent into, 82 Vital-physical, 254-5 Vivekananda, 13, 28 Worker, divine, 232 Work is done,194, 199 World War I, 63, 170 World War II, 91-2 Yoga, 2, 5, 7, 10; 14, 17, 18, 20, 68- 74, 77-81, 87-8, 144, 251-3, 255-6, 261-2, 267-71 Yogic research, 2-3, 74 Yoga, systems of ...
... Sri Aurobindo for All Ages X: Coming of the Mother - “Arya” Review - World War I (1914-1920) WITH the Mother's arrival, there was a mighty mingling of two vast streams of sadhana which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were pursuing individually. These now joined forever to mark the beginning of a new era of spiritual creation: 'An hour began, the matrix of ...
... This was followed by Beneath the Wheel (1906), the tale of a schoolboy totally out of touch with his contemporaries, who flees through different cities after his escape from school. World War I came as a terrific shock, and Hesse joined the pacifist Romain Rolland in antiwar activities — not only writing antiwar tracts and novels, but editing two newspapers for German prisoners of war. ...
... ion is not quite right. Let them correct that by listening to the cassette.' * Someone asked: 'Dada, where were you when Calcutta was being bombed in the Second World War?' 'I was in Berhampore then,' Dada replied. 'People were leaving Calcutta in droves under the menace of bombs. The bombs fell in Hatibagan, in Dalhousie Square, also in Kidderpur dock. The Japanese ...
... side a few were touched and they told me of terrible conditions. Since World War II, I have been keeping Kali 2 quiet, but she is restless! Times are critical, anything may happen. If people will only give up their ego! (B.) I shall suggest a simpler way—to turn to you. Perhaps the time has come to tell what I have told you. You may talk if an occasion arises. Keep your faith and go... conscious of their common origin... (B.) When are you coming? Page 40 Don't be under the illusion that I am not there. I am there, the force, the consciousness are there, but there is no receptivity. During the Chinese trouble, I was in those places in the front, concretely, but I am sorry to say that the only people who were receptive were the Chinese. The impulsion to come forward disappeared... Mother and a Bengali disciple, B., was not tape-recorded but only noted from memory in English: ) (B.) I am going to Calcutta. There they will ask me one question regarding the present situation—communal riots. 1 What is the solution? The solution is, of course, the change of consciousness. I know those other people [in Pakistan] behaved badly, like animals—even animals are better than human ...
... For instance, I see the great threat of a world war, and I put all my force against it to prevent anything that may develop into a world war. Even lately I have done that. Sehra: I am asking you about the astrologers' predictions because it is said that half of Bombay will be submerged in water. I feel very worried; my people are staying just opposite the beach in Bombay. Will the predictions... Mother: Yes, and when I go into a trance I see everything. Even in the present case I must have seen everything, but when I come back into the outer consciousness I sometimes forget and there is a blank. Sehra: You mean you want to forget and so you don't remember. Mother: You may put it like that if you wish. But when I am meant to interfere I clearly remember everything I see in my trance.... Sehra: I was cooking for my guests. Mother: Have you come straight from your cooking? Sehra: Yes. Mother: Oh, that's why I have such a delicious smell. You must have prepared something very nice. It is so nice that I would like to eat it. I keep on smelling it. Yes, it is delicious. But, you know, I can't eat at present because my teeth are weak. When I get a new set ...
... lived in anxiety, now at last we are going to live in hope." So said the delicious French playwright Tristan Bernard when the Germans came in, occupied Paris, arrested and imprisoned him (in the World War No. I). A noble truth nobly said by a noble soul thrown into the very midst of danger and calamity. Indeed, a danger is a danger so long as it is away and has not reached us. It is the menace, the imminence... of fact way does not give the right perspective of things, a proper appreciation of appearance and reality. It is well known that often we project our imagination and apprehension upon the external world and bring about or help to bring about results that were only a possibility. Our fear calls for the object feared and makes it a reality. Apart from that, however, and on a deeper consideration, to ...
... in International Covenants and Conventions. But a new situation has arisen for some time past. The last Great War (World War No. I) was crucial in many ways in the life of humanity. It opened a new direction of man's growth, opened and then closed also apparently. I am referring to the tragedy of the League of Nations. That was an attempt on the part of man (and Nature) to lift the inner... inner life and consciousness to the level of the outer achievements. The attempt failed. Man could not rise to the height demanded of him. Now the second World War became logically more devastating and shattering; it has given the go-by to all ethical standards and codes of honour. The poison gas was not used not because of any moral restraint or disinclination, but because of practical and utilitarian... THE moralist – the Christian moralist particularly – has dubbed the atomic bomb as the Devil's engine; while the practical politician retorts that the accursed machine has cut short the war, saved more lives on the whole and reduced the extent and duration of suffering and agony. In any case the new weapon is so radical and devastating in its effectiveness that even politicians do not seem ...
... today in International Covenants and Conventions. But a new situation has arisen for some time past. The last Great War (World War No. I) was crucial in many ways in the life of humanity. It opened a new direction of man's growth, opened and then closed also apparently. I am referring to the tragedy of the League of Nations. That was an attempt Page 21 on the part of man (and... (and Nature) to lift the inner life and consciousness to the level of the outer achievements. The attempt failed. Man could not rise to the height demanded of him. Now the second World War became logically more devastating and shattering; it has given the go-by to all ethical standards and codes of honour. The poison gas was not used not because of any moral restraint or disinclination, but because of... ATOMIC BOMB The moralist—the Christian moralist particularly—has dubbed the atomic bomb as the Devil's engine; while the practical politician retorts that the accursed machine has cut short the war, saved more lives on the whole and reduced the extent and duration of suffering and agony. In any case the new weapon is so radical and devastating in its effectiveness that even politicians do not seem ...
... Nations'.... And I saw him, oh! I saw this Lord of Nations. During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him again, but not through Richard—directly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations. An incredible story!... And I knew when they were going to meet (because after all, he's my son! 9 That was the funniest part of it); and on one occasion I substituted myself... 'ifs' exist, and when I am 'there,' I still don't find any signs of... inevitability. The place X looks from is all mixed up. I have had a certain number of visions, but not THE vision of inevitable war. Not that they aren't trying! ( silence ) Well, petit, when will you have finished? ?? Ever since I've known that Sri Aurobindo attached importance to this book, I have been doing a great... the war broke out before the first issue appeared—on August 3, I believe—a very interesting point. June 21 was Paul Richard's birthday, 4 so on that day we announced the coming publication of the Arya and that the first issue would appear on August 15. Between June 21 and August 15, the war broke out. But since everything was ready we went ahead and published it. Page 369 I wrote ...
... or beat it into dust in a moment? 23 March 1934 The World Situation before World War II I was discussing the Ethiopian problem with some friends. One suggested it would result in a world war. He thought such a war would clear the way for the supramental and supposes that Mussolini would help precipitate the war. Perhaps after the war everybody will be so tired out that they will begin to read... overpowered by Kshatratej, but where is that happening? None of the warring parties incarnates either. 17 February 1937 On World War II You have said that you have begun to doubt whether it was the Mother's war and ask me to make you feel again that it is. I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war. You should not think of it as a fight for certain nations against ... wicked and sinful race, but as an indicator it has a decisive importance. Nolini, I should suppose, gave the Kurukshetra example not as an exact parallel but as a traditional instance of a War between two world-forces in which the side favoured by the Divine triumphed, because its leaders made themselves his instruments. I don't suppose he envisaged it as a battle between virtue and wickedness or between ...
... race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished.² By 1942, the War had led the world to a precipice. Surrounded by "laps, reports from all the war fronts, day and night Sri Aurobindo was in the thick of the battle against Nazism. And Mother, too. As she said in the Agenda: During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him [the Asura of Falsehood, who called himself The... wouldn't be destroyed. Throughout the war Sri Aurobindo and I were in such a CONSTANT tension that it completely interrupted the yoga. And that is why the war started in the first place—to stop the Work. At that time there was an extraordinary descent of the Supermind; it was coming like that (massive gesture), a descent! Exactly in 1939. Then the war broke out and stopped everything cold. For... sustained an accident; he slipped and fractured his right leg above the knee. This was on 24th November, 1938. Within a year, the Second World War broke out. The ferocity and speed of the Nazi victories were so great that Sri Aurobindo concentrated on the War and declared that he had put all his Yogic Force on the side of the Allies. Sri Aurobindo wrote: The victory of one side (the Allies) ...
... friend of his. I don't know what position my brother had, but everything passed through his hands. When the world war broke out — the First World War, when I was here —the British Government asked the French to expel Sri Aurobindo and deport him to Algeria. They did not want Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry; they were afraid. So when we came to know of this (Sri Aurobindo knew, we knew), I wrote to my brother... occurrence during that Second World War period. Well, her eyes were half-closed, her body swayed, but the hands went on doing their work. The two attendants there, overgrown babies that they were, began to joke and play with each other, silently of course, assuming that she would not notice their pranks. But as Mother went out of the room, she told them, "I can see everything. I have eyes at the back of... out of her fingers as she sat at the organ. How I loved it! Page 96 10 Musical Waves "Music, Mother." The Second World War was more than a year behind us. My twenty-first birthday was approaching. Mother gently asked me, "What would you like, child, for your birthday?" "Music, Mother," I said hopefully. She smiled softly. Dear ...
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