EUROPE: SPLIT OR UNITED?

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  • Author(s): Galin, Alexander
  • Source:
    Foreign Affairs. Apr1947, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p408-420. 13p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      EUROPEAN politics & government; JUSTIFICATION (Christian theology); PEACE; EUROPEAN Union; WORLD War II
    • Subject Terms:
      EUROPE
    • Abstract:
      The article comments on political condition of Europe during World War II. The slogan of a United States of Europe is not new. Much has been written about a United Europe and eternal peace in the past two or three centuries. People leave aside remoter times and consider only the period between the two world wars. The French Government stated that its proposal found its justification in the very definite sentiment of a collective responsibility in face of the danger which threatens European peace, from the political as well as from the economic and social point of view, because of the lack of coordination which still prevails in the general economy of Europe. It called attention to the divided state of the Continent, to the fact that Europe had 20,000 kilometers of customs barriers. After 1932, the European Commission of Inquiry for the European Union, formed in 1930, ceased to function. The plan of the French Government and the numerous memoranda of European governments were committed to the archives, where they rest undisturbed to this day.