CiNii Books - Federal Union : the pioneers : a history of Federal Union

Britain's relationship with its European Community partners has been bedevilled by divergent views about the aim of a political union with federal institutions. Federalism is often depicted in Britain as an alien concept with which the British cannot come to terms. This book shows this view to be false. Between 1938 and 1940, the British did the most to develop and promote the federal idea. Initiated by three young men, the organization known as Federal Union rapidly gained both elite and mass support and attracted some of the best brains in the country to develop thinking about political organization along federal lines. Following the rejection of Churchill's offer of Union to France, it was the course of the war that diverted the British from the idea of a federal Europe which was at the same time taking root in the resistance movements on the Continent. This book shows how Federal Union achieved its originality and strength: how its literature inspired a small group in the Italian Resistance who became founders of the European federal movements: how this movement influenced the building of the present European Community; how a small group of British federalists carried the ideas of Federal Union's founders into their successful campaign for British membership of the Community -- while others worked to strengthen Atlantic and world institutions: how the British federalists contributed to thinking about the Community's further development: and how their work has continued in the 1980s, in the context of the Single European Act and the prospect that it will be followed by European Union in the 1990s.

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Part 1 Against the tide: the birth of a pressure group
society is federal
launching Federal Union
a wider audience
mixed motives
the gathering storm. Part 2 At war: emergency organization
distinguished supporters
conscience and controversy
expansion and organization
an abortive federation
ebb tide
a movement, not a party. Part 3 Peace aims: research and education
preparing for peace. Part 4 Postwar debate: a united world?
debate in the Grand Duchy. Part 5 World federalism?: early advocates
the 1947 Montreux Congress
"my country is the world"
reform the United Nations?
a UN police force?
unanswered questions
practical versus political?
agreeing to differ. Part 6 Groundwork in Europe: wartime proposals
altiero Spinelli
Europe and the wider world
the European Union of Federalists
Montreaux August 1947?
Churchill, Sandys and the federalists
post-war problems for federalists
the Congress of Europe
in labour
the Council of Europe and R.W.G.Mackay
British reluctance. Part 7 New thinking - the federal trust begins: Europe, facts, educating industry
a new phase. Part 8 The birth of the European Community: Britain's response
the European defence debacle
Federalist divisions. Part 9 Atlantic union?: support widens
the declaration of Atlantic unity
article II of the North Atlantic Treaty
conference of NATO parliamentarians
the genesis of OECD
which community?. Part 10 Hopes and setbacks: the common market campaign
the federalists network
channel bridges
the Labour Party, the public and the veto
balance sheet for the federalists. Part 12 Britain into Europe: joining forces
the campaign for a European political community
the Labour committee for Europe
George Brown and the federalists
European links
from Britain in Europe to the European movement
into the community - ensuring Conservative support
the campaign for entry
the Labour committee and the vote on October 28. Part 13 Towards federation?: steps to monetary union
agriculture and the budget
institutions
one Europe in one world
federalism.

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