JPG' alt='Churchill First War' title='Churchill First War' />A multimedia history of World War One including the buildup, source documents, timeline, maps, battlefields and battles, weaponry, whos who, memoirs, and vintage. Dramadocumentary about Winston Churchills experiences during the First World War. Churchills great speech delivered May 13, 1940. Upon his very first entrance into the House of Commons as Britains new Prime Minister on Monday, May 13, 1940. The Churchill Society London. Churchills Speeches. Since I spoke on this. Zurich in 1. 94. 6, and since our British United Europe. Movement was launched in January 1. This cause was obviously either. If it was academic, it would wither by the. Europe and the world in this. This is what has actually happened. SR/36005/2872474/445-20131018224238_original.jpg' alt='Churchill First War' title='Churchill First War' />Great. The mighty republic of the United States has espoused the. Marshall Plan. Sixteen European States are now associated for. We hope that this nucleus will in due course be joined. Scandinavia, and of the Iberian peninsula, as well. Italy, who should now resume her full place in the comity of. All who have worked and tried their best and especially. Ministers in responsible office we must not forget what their. Mr. Bevin, M. Bidault, M. Spaak, and General. Marshall and others, have a right to feel content with the progress. This is not a Movement of parties but a. There is no room for jealousies. If there is. rivalry of parties, let it be to see which one will distinguish. No one can suppose that Europe. It must be all for. Europe can only be united by the heart felt wish and vehement. We need not waste our time in disputes about. United Europe. There are many valid. There are many famous names associated with the. I think, yield. our pretensions to Henry Navarre, King of France, who, with his great. Minister Sully, between the years 1. Christian States of Europe. This body was to act as. East, which in those days meant the Turks. This. he called The Grand Design. After this long passage of time we are. Grand Design. This Congress has brought together leaders of. Europe. Statesmen. Churches. eminent writers, leaders of the professions, lawyers, chiefs of. In fact a. representative grouping of the most essential elements in the. Europe is now. assembled in this ancient hall. And although everyone has been. Congress, and. any conclusions it may reach, may fairly claim to be the voice of. Europe. It is time indeed that that voice should be raised upon the. We shall only save ourselves from the perils which. Europe, the expression of its genius and honour, but. It is indeed fitting that this first Congress of Europe should. Holland, which, with her neighbours of the Benelux group, is. And may I here say with what. Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhardt who gave so graciously come to. Indeed Benelux, that happy novel. The Movement for European Unity must be a. It is a dynamic expression of democratic faith. In. the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human. Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law. It is impossible to. Mutual aid in the economic field and joint military defence must. It is said with truth that this involves some. But it is also possible. Nazi, Fascist, or Communist, would certainly be blotted out. Some time ago I stated that it was the proud. Germans by the hand and. European family, and I rejoice that some of. Frenchmen have spoken in this sense. To. rebuild Europe from its ruins and make its light shine forth again. It is in this. way only that the sublime, with its marvellous transmutations of. Europe requires. all that Frenchmen, all that Germans, and all that every one of us. I therefore welcome here the German delegation, whom we. For us the German problem is to restore. Germany and revive the ancient fame of the. German race without thereby exposing their neighbours and ourselves. United Europe provides the only solution to. It is necessary for the executive governments. Marshall. Plan, to make precise arrangements. These can apply present only to. Western Europe. In this we wish them well and will. What Are Saltine Crackers Called In England. Western Europe. We seek nothing less than all Europe. Distinguished. exiles from Czechoslovakia, and most all the Eastern European. Spain, are present among us. We aim at the. eventual participation of all European peoples whose society and way. Charter of Human Rights. We welcome any. country where the people own the Government, and not the Government. It is not the fault of those who are gathered here today. Governments involved in the Marshall Plan or in the. Western Union, and least of all is it the fault of the United States. Europe cannot be at present complete. All the. States of the East and South East of Europe, except Greece. We must. aim at nothing less than the union of Europe as a whole, and we look. I was anxious at first lest the United States. America should view with hostility the idea of a United. States of Europe. But I rejoice that the great Republic in its. We must all. be thankful as we sit here that the nation called to the summit of. States depends. Far from resenting the creation of. United Europe, the American people welcome and ardently sustain the. Old World, now found in full. New. Nothing that we do or plan here conflicts with. United. Nations. On the contrary I have always believed, as I dared in the. Council of Europe was a subordinate but necessary part of. I thought at that time, when I had. This was the direction in which my hopes. To take an example from. Thus I saw the vast Soviet. Union forming one of these groups. The Council of Europe, including. Great Britain linked with her Empire and Commonwealth, would be. Thirdly, there was the United States and her sister. Western Hemisphere with all their great spheres of. In the mind picture which it was possible to. There was also the hope that they would meet not in an overcrowded. Tower of Babel, but, as it were, upon a mountain top where all was. As the. poet Blake wrote Above Times troubled fountains. On the great Atlantic mountains. In my golden house on high. To some extent events have moved in this. The. western hemisphere already presents itself as a unit. Here at The. Hague we are met to help our various Governments to create the new. Europe. But we are all grieved and perplexed and imperilled by the. We must do our best to create and combine the great regional. Thus for us and for all who share our. Persevere. That is the command which. Congress. Persevere along all the main lines. Persevere towards those. I have the feeling that after the second Thirty. Years War, for that is what it is, through which we have just. After all, how. little it is that the millions of homes in Europe represented here. What is it that all these wage earners, skilled. Is it not a fair chance to make a home, to reap the. That is their hearts desire. That is what. we mean to win for them. President Roosevelt spoke of the Four Freedoms. Freedom from Fear. Why should all these hardworking families be harassed, first in. Why. should they now have to be regimented and hurled against each other. Why should so many millions of humble homes in Europe, aye, and much. That is the question we have to answer here. That. is the question which perhaps we have the power to answer here. After. all, Europe has only to arise and stand in her own majesty. Nazi or Communist, with forces which are unconquerable, and. I take. a proud view of this Congress. We cannot rest upon benevolent. Our powers may be limited but we know. On the other hand. That is a later. stage, and it is one in which the leadership must be taken by the. We are here to lay the foundations upon which. It. is not for us who do not wield the authority of Governments to. There are many different points of view which. We in Britain must move in harmony with our. Commonwealth, who, I do not doubt, though. But undue. precipitancy, like too much refinement, would hinder and not help the. Nevertheless we must not. The task before us at this.