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After his resignation in protest against the Munich agreement, Cooper spent his time fostering the idea of an Anglo-French alliance as the corner-stone of a European combination against Hitler's Germany.
Duff Cooper and Western European union, 1944-47 John Charmley Duff Cooper fell in love with France during his first visit to Paris in 1900 and he remained faithful to her for the rest of his life. The fact that Paris in 1900 was deeply Anglophobic, because of the Boer war, had no effect upon Cooper's feelings for the city.
diplomacy’ Cooper, in late May 1944, wrote a thirteen-page despatch to London. 11 It proposed the creation post-war of an Anglo–French alliance around which a wider western European alliance of democracies could be created, to defend against a Soviet Union that would inevitably domi-nate a post-Nazi Europe.
concept of western union provides crucial insights into two contentious war issues: the nature of the Anglo-American alliance and Britain's toward European unity. Britain, to remain a significant force in the postwar world, was faced three options: 'It could try to lead a united Europe as a force in world.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian.
On 13 August 1945 he assembled his people in the Western Department and explained that his ultimate objective was a system of political, military and economic co-operation in Europe with a close Anglo-French relationship as its cornerstone.5 This was welcome news to Duff Cooper, who felt that Bevin's policy and sentiments towards France could no...
His long-term aim, he declared, was ‘extensive political, economic and military cooperation throughout Western Europe, with an Anglo–French alliance as a corner-stone’.6 Yet these long-term aims were quickly undermined by the cold light of present political considerations.
