...build a kind of United States of Europe... I am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the recreation of the European family...spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany. Early in 1947, the movement for European Unity was launched in Britain under the patronage of Churchill....

...his hearers that he was likely to say something which would astonish them, Churchill expostulated: "The first step in the re-creation of the European...way only can France recover the moral leadership of Europe."44 No less urgent 316 Peace was the need for adjusting German and British foreign policies....

...of this turbulent and mighty continent . . . I am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the re-creation of the European...spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany. The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be such as to make the...

...there any need for further floods of agony? ... I am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the re-creation of the European...family must be a partnership between France and Germany . . . While his audience was still recovering from this pronouncement, revolutionary indeed at that...

...problem of the future of Germany, including some way of laying French fears of a revived Germany to rest: There can be no revival of Europe without a spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany ... we must recreate the European family in a regional structure called — it may be — the United...

...international Communism. i: In Zurich, he proposed that 'France and Germany must take the lead together': The first step in the re-creation of the European...spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany. The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be such as to make the...

...and hopes which make life worth living ... I am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the recreation of the European family...and Germany. In this way only can France recover the usual leadership of Europe. There can be no revival of Europe without a spiritually great France and...

...done, there must be an end to retnbution ... l am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the recreation of the European family...must be a partnership between France and Germany. ln this way only can France recover the moral leadership of Europe. There can be no revival of Europe...

...done, there must be an end to retribution ... l am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the recreation of the European family must be a partriership between France and Germany. In this way only can France recover the moral leadership of...

...United States of Europe ...' Hij ziet hierin prominente rollen weggelegd voor Frankrijk en Duitsland:' ...There can be no revival of Europe without a spiritually...great France and a spiritually great Germany...'. Op dat moment een gewaagde uitspraak. 1947 Marshallhulp In juni 1947 kondigt de Amerikaanse minister...