New President of High Authority Takes Office

10/6/1955

The former President of the Council of Ministers of France, René Mayer, succeeds Jean Monnet as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. In his first press conference, he referred to the High Authority, describing it as an “revolutionary institution”.

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