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Monnet's Paris headquarters, where he works with only six fulltime assistants, is a four-room apartment at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, but it is a priority stop for visiting politicians, trade unionists, government officials from both Europe and the U.S. Dutch-born Max Kohnstamm, the committee's vice president and a longtime Monnet assistant, compares the operation with the committees of correspondence in America's struggle for independence. Monnet says quietly: "I don't have an official position. I have influence." He likes to add a quotation from a somewhat remote source...