Fourteen months elapsed between the signing of the Treaty institutionalising the ECSC and the last ratifying vote in June 1952. Only then did the International Ruhr Authority and ceilings on steel production disappear. The High Authority's head quarters were established in Luxembourg with Jean Monnet as President, 10 August 1952. One of Monnet's first tasks as President was to solicit financial assistance for the CSC, which was duly forthcoming, due to the interest of the US Government in seeing the CSC succeed.

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