UNITED STATES OF EUROPE PROJECT

Grey River Argus, 26 February 1949, Page 5

UNITED STATES OF EUROPE PROJECT

BRUSSEDS, Feb 23. A new effort to build up a United States of Europe will be made from February 25 to February 28 by ibu delegates from about 16 European countries meeting in Brussels. These delegates will represent then countries at the first meeting of the International Council of the Movement for a United Europe. The council’s agenda includes:— (1) The study of a recommendation to operate a European International Court, the aim of which is to enforce the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. (2) The drafting and approval of a programme of European policy. (3) Discussion of the general organisation of the Movement for a United Europe. . The representatives are leading personalities in their countries. They include Mr Churchill. They have been chosen from national groups and they seek to unite European countries into one large- co-operative economic and political group. M. Jean Drapier, the Belgian Prime Minister’s chief of the Cabinet, who will be chairman of- tic Brussels conference, said that the idea of the movement was born a. the United Europe Congress at I he Hague in May, 1948. It was there thal i all national movements decided tu I co-ordinate their efforts towards uni ity. They had already achieved one

of the decisions of The Hague conference —the creation of the European Assembly. M. Drapier said that the movement had no effective power.to enforce its recommendations. “It is working to unify Europe through pressure exerted on those in power by public opinion ” he said. “Diplomacy must be stimulated by public opinion to quick en its action towards unity.