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The European Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

A. Loveday
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My purpose in this article is to trace as briefly as possible the recent history of the movement for European unity, to indicate the policies it advocates and the results so far achieved; it is not to argue either for or against those policies or to speculate on what influence the movement may have in shaping the future of Europe.

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International Organization , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , November 1949 , pp. 620 - 632
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1949

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1 Thus, Duncan Sandys wrote in a letter to the London Times of October 16, 1948: “We … should not attempt to define too precisely the constitutional form which may ultimately emerge. It is as though we wera looking up at a new and unfamiliar mountain. Some are confident that they will be able to scale the rocky peak; others think that it would be rash to venture above the snow line. The truth is that it is still too far away to say what will be possible and what impossible.”

2 For text of the Statute of the Council of Europe, see International Organization, III, p. 583–91. For summary of the first session of the Contultative Assembly, see this issue, p. 729.

3 There is, it may be noted, no allusion to the free movement of labor, though in the “immediate recommendation” the promotion of labor mobility is advocated.

4 It is worth while recalling in connection with this suggestion that the OEEC Customs Union Study Group is actively engaged at the moment in establishing “a specimen common tariff.” See Interim Report on the European Recovery Program, December 1948.

5 “The European Recovery Program,” American Economic Review, October 1948.