UNITED EUROPE MOVEMENT

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 7

UNITED EUROPE MOVEMENT

Mr Churchill Speaks At Brussels

DEFECTS SEEN IN UNITED NATIONS

(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter— Copyright) (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) BRUSSELS, Feb. 26. "The United Nations organisation has been reduced to a brawling cockpit in which insults may be flung back and forth,” said Mr Churchill in his speech to the inaugural congress of the United Europe Movement. "The main cause of this disaster is the fact that the world is sundered by the aggression of Communist ideology through the armed power of Soviet Russia. "There are a number of ancient and famous European States which are no longer able to take their stand for those human rights for which there is so great a need. The yoke of the Kremlin oligarchy has descended upon them, and they are victims of a tyranny more subtle and merciless than any known before in history.” Mr Churchill said that it must be made impossible for "such a legal atrocity” as the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty to be perpetrated within the boundaries of a united Europe. “After each of the frightful wars which have ravaged the lives and homes of mankind, the hopes of humanity have centred on the creation of an instrument of world government capable at least of maintaining peace and law among men,” he said. "We have all been grieved and alarmed by the fact that the United Nations organisation should have been so torn and broken. It has made a far less hopeful start in these first four years than its predecessor, the League of Nations.” Mr Churchill said that there were fundamental defects ,in the structure of the United Nations which must be corrected. “I always felt during the war that the structure of world security could be founded only on regional organisations," he added. “Large regional units are a necessary element in any scheme of world government. Unless and until this is done the United Nations organisation will be a failure and even a mockery.” Mr Churchill told his audience of 2500 that any European country that sincerely accepted the principles of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights would be welcomed by a European Union.

Work (Before Congress Speaking of the proposals at The Hague last May for the creation of a European assembly and a European court for the enforcement of human rights, Mr Churchill said: “A European assembly is now on the point of being achieved. We have now to take the second step forward and try to establish as a practical result of our meeting here the setting up of a European court of human rights. Mr Churchill sdded: “The task of our movement is to foster and encourage pride of being European. The Europe we are trying to build must be independent, but not isolated. We stretch our hands out in gratitude to the other half of the world across the ocean. We express our admiration to the great United States for the part they are playing, not only in the reconstruction of the European economy, but also in guaranteeing our security and defence. The Atlantic Pact will give us all a guarantee that the cause of freedom will not be aggressively assaulted without effective help coming from the great Republic over the ° C Mr Churchill said that the division of Europe into two parts—free ana unfree—could not remain. "In uniting the free countries which are working together under the Marshall Plan we recognise that individual countries have special problems, he said. “Britain is herself the centre of a free, world-wide commonwealth of States. We are sure in our own country that a satisfactory solution can be found by which we can develope our new association with Europe without in the slightest degree weakening the sacred ties which unite Britain to her daughter States across the ocean."