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Walter Hallstein and his work have been honoured many times, but in particular on 2 April 1982 at the state occasion marking his death. President Karl Carstens, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Commission President Gaston Thorn and Minister-President Lothar Spät paid tribute to him on this occasion. President Karl Carstens made a particularly impressive speech, from which I would like to quote the following passage:
Hallstein was highly intelligent, and this intellingence was combained with an extraordinary strength of mind. He believed in the power of common sense, reason, logic, material logic, as he called it. Boldness was a feature of his political work. He set himself goalis which in the beginning lay far out in uncharted waters and then most forcefully and tenaciously worked his way towards those goals.
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von der Groeben, H. (1998). Walter Hallstein as President of the Commission. In: Loth, W., Wallace, W., Wessels, W. (eds) Walter Hallstein: The Forgotten European?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26693-7_7
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