European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes de Meese s resignation has we Voo throw oot7hat Tow Demeese swearing ounce remm sounds kept James h. Markham de ors bu/7ds in Ted Europe be a chess master when Jacques Delors the president of the european Community s commission embarks on his vacation this summer he plans to take with him history books explaining How 13 squabbling colonies be came the United states of America. Like a chess player Delors advances one piece at a time but beneath a Cool and even shy exterior lurks a passionate visionary. At their meeting in Hannover West Germany Las month the 12 leaders of the european Community paid the Frenchman a tribute naming him to a second four year term at the head of the organization s Brus Sels based organization. This has been a year of Giddy successes for the euro Pean Community and for Delors 63, a former French finance minister. At a gathering in february the 12 members finally agreed to Cut their bloated system of agricultural subsidies opening the Way to the creation of a single Market by the end of 1992. Last month Community finance ministers adopted measures that will end All restrictions on the flow of capital in the trading bloc. And at Hannover Delors a socialist was named to chair a committee of Central Bankers and other experts that next year will furnish what will amount to a Blue print for creating a european Central Bank. As the european Community rediscovers an Elan it has not known since the 1960s, Delors stature is soar ing. There is a group of True believers who Are persuaded that Delors is going to turn into another Jean Monnet a Diplomat said. Like Monnet and Robert Schuman two frenchmen who Laid the groundwork for Western european cooperation in the Uncertain and hungry Post War years Delors is convinced that political Unity will come about Only when economic Union is completed. But he is also a Good enough politician to know that talking too much about political Union can be counterproductive particularly in member countries Lik Britain Denmark and Ireland where concerns about surrendering National sovereignty run deep. This month he gave a speech to the european parliament in Strasbourg saying the time was Ripe to think about a germ of a european government but has dropped the theme for the moment. A Short neat figure with a mellifluous voice Delor shas a habit of suddenly leaning Forward in a leather chair in his both floor office and making a Point with a fervent colleague Calls him a very emotional Man Capa ble of great gloom when things Are going wrong and it is More important in this Job to rally and Jacques Delors elation when they Are going yet a Streak of austerity makes him shun grand standing. One will be judged tomorrow by what one does not by what one says or believes he said. It Ismore important in this Job to rally and convince than to Shine. If you become charismatic you bother the one politician Delors has thoroughly rallied to his cause is Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany who for the first six months of 1988 held the rotating Community presidency. Kohl and Delors were a skillful team at Brussels an Hannover and Kohl was an enthusiastic Champion of a second Delors another key to the recent breakthroughs has been lord Cockfield a 71-year-old British conserva Tive who for the last four years has been the commissioner in charge of outlining and then pushing through measures that will gradually eliminate All barriers to Trade within the Community Over the next five is a strange Alliance the intense French socialist and the Bluff British tory but it has worked. I conversation Delors ritually repeats that lord cock Field and i did this or that so that the formulation almost becomes a variant of the first person plural. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher rebuked Lor Cockfield last week for going native in Brussels declining to nominate him for a second term As one of Britain s two commissioners in Delors 17-member Cabinet. The snub to Cockfield Means a distressing loss to Delors who must now decide whether to give the important single Market portfolio to Britain or to turn to another Community country and candidate. One alter native is West Germany s Martin Bangemann who misgiving up the powerful Job of economics minister in Bonn to join the Delors team around Thatcher is a Fine Art in Brussels and Delors Only rarely permits himself an on the record Jab in her direction. He grumbled in a recent interview with be Monde that certain countries had made thei Choice of commissioners without consulting him. The commission presidency is a Job whose Power hinges on an ability to persuade and build coalitions. But Delors political horizons Are not limited if that is the right word to Europe he remains a prominent personality on president Francois Mitterrand s socialist socialists Are much in demand in Paris. For the moment one of them Michel Ricard i France s prime minister but should he falter Many believe that Mitterrand might Well summon Delors from Brussels to take up the always say that we europeans will always have two fatherland said Delors a federalist who Mayone Day be regarded As a founding father. One is Europe and the other is our own country. It i unified in diversity this Europe. And it is its diversity that will permit it to survive this new York times
