UNITED EUROPE TAKING SHAPE SAYS CHURCHILL

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1949, Page 5

UNITED EUROPE TAKING SHAPE SAYS CHURCHILL

U.N.O. Failure Due to Communist Aggression

(Rec. 9:10). BRUSSELS, Feb. 26. Mr Winston Churchill made a speech at the inaugural Congress of United Europe Movement. He said: “The United Nations Organisation has been reduced to a brawling cockpit, in which insults may be flung back and forth. The main cause of this disaster js that the world is sundered by the aggression of Communist ideology, through the armed power of Soviet Russia”.

He continued: “There is a number of ancient and famous European States which are no longer able to-take their stand for those human rights for which they have so great a need. The yoke of the Kremlin oligarchy has descended upon them, and they are the victims of a tyranny which is more subtle and more 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 United Europe.

“After each of the frightful wars which have ravaged the lives and homes Of mankind, the hopes of humanity have centred upon the creation of an instrument of world government capable, at least, of maintaining peace and law among men. 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 referred to fundamental defects in the structure of the United Nations Organisation, which, he said, must be corrected. “I always felt, dufing the war, that the structure of world security could be founded only on regional organisations”, he stated. “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 two thousand live hundred people that any European country that sincerely accepted the principles of the United Nations Charter of human rights would be welcomed by the European Union. Speaking of proposals at The Hague Congress, 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 a second step forward, and to try to establish, as the practical result of our meeting here, the setting up of a European Court of Human Rights. The task of our movement is to foster and encourage the pride of being a European. The Europe that 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 European economy, but also in guaranteeing our security and defence. The Atlantic Pact will give us all a guarantee that freedom will not be aggressively assaulted without effective help coming from the great republic over the ocean”. Mr Churchill said that the division of Europe into two parts—free and unfree —could not remain. “In uniting the free countries which are working together under the Marshall Flan, we recognise that individual countries have special "problems. 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 whereby we "can develop our new association with Europe without in the slightest degree weakening the sacred ties which unite Britain to her daughter States across the ocean”.

The Belgian police have warned that plans have been discovered for a Communist demonstration against Mr Churchill at the European Movemen’s public meeting in the Brussels bourse to-morrow.

The Belgian Communist Party’s “battle orders” plan to marshal two thousand demonstrators outside of the meeting while 250 determined Communists, -inside, try to disrupt the proceedings.