Search results
Duff Cooper and Western European union, 1944–47. | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core. Home. >Journals. >Review of International Studies. >Volume 11 Issue 1. >Duff Cooper and Western European union, 1944–47. English. Français. 1. Cited by. Review of International Studies. Extract. References.
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.
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. His affection for France was no fair-weather plant. It was deepened by the experience of nine months in the trenches in the Great War ...
54 Duff Cooper and Western European union, 1944-47 Roosevelt's, which left the Russians as the only power which regarded the FCNL as almost the equivalent to a government in exile. The British formula was the result of conflicts within the government about British policy towards France and towards Europe in general. Winston Churchill shared ...
Martin A.L. Longden1. If the British declaration of war on Germany in 1939 was proof of the United Kingdom’s strategic interest in the European continent, a superficial glance at the three British treaties that punctuated Western Europe’s early post-war period – the Dunkirk, Brussels and Washington treaties of 1947, 1948 and 1949 ...
ship with France and thereafter with Western Europe.2o These sentiments were echoed by Duff Cooper in a letter to Bevin on 21 August in which he stressed his belief in the desirability of eventual econ omic integration between Britain and France.21 In the same letter Cooper referred to a proposed meeting between Bevin and the French Foreign
concept of western union provides crucial insights into two contentious post-war issues: the nature of the Anglo-American alliance and Britain's attitude toward European unity. Britain, to remain a significant force in the postwar world, was faced with three options: 'It could try to lead a united Europe as a force in world politics;
