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may not be long till we have to be ‘saved’ in order to survive, even if it is, as part of a new world
order dominated by a socialistic political ideology.
EUROPEAN UNION
The European Union, formerly known as the European Communities (EC), or European
Economic Community (Common Market), is a movement to unite Western Europe. For hundreds
of years, there has been an ongoing effort to unify Europe. Prior to World War II, because of
intermarriage between Royal families, all crowned heads were closely related.
French philosopher Montesquieu said in the 18th century: “Whenever in the past Europe has
been united by force, the unity lasted no longer than the space of a single reign.” He went on to
predict the peaceful unification of Europe. In 1871, Victor Hugo, the French novelist, said: “Let
us have the United States of Europe; let us have continental federation; let us have European
freedom.”
In 1922, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan European Union. He fled
Austria in 1940, and came to the United States, where he continued to work towards European
unity. In 1941, Andre Malraux called for a “European New Deal, a federal Europe excluding the
USSR.” In an October, 1942 letter to the British War Cabinet, Winston Churchill wrote: “Hard
as it is to say now, I trust that the European family may act unitedly as one under a Council of
Europe. I look forward to a United States of Europe.” He also said in a September 19, 1946
speech at the University of Zurich: “We must build a kind of United States of Europe.” Churchill
made the United Europe Movement a cohesive group, by merging the Union of European
Federalists, the Economic League for European Cooperation, and the French Council for a
United Europe, into an organization known as the International Committee of Movements for
European Unity.
Late in 1947, various people and groups formed a committee to coordinate their efforts, and
by May, 1948, organized the Congress of Europe, which convened at the Hague in the
Netherlands. Nearly 1000 prominent Europeans from 16 countries called for the establishment of
a United Europe. Dr. Joseph Retinger, who had helped organized the meeting at the Hague, came
to the United States in July, 1948, along with Winston Churchill, Duncan Sandys, and former
Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, to raise money for the movement. This led to the
establishment of the American Committee on a United Europe (ACUE) on March 29, 1949.
Their first Chairman was William Donovan, the first Director of the Office of Strategic Services
(OSS, the forerunner of the CIA); the Vice-Chairman was Allen Dulles, who later became the
Director of the CIA; and the Secretary was George S. Franklin, who was a Director in the
Council on Foreign Relations, and later a coordinator with the Trilateral Commission.
Lord James Edward Salisbury, the conservative British statesman, said: “Federation is the
only hope of the world.” The historic address on June 5, 1947, by Gen. George C. Marshall, the
Secretary of State, which made proposals for European aid known as the Marshall Plan, also
called for the unification of Europe.
On March 17, 1948, a 50 year treaty was signed for “collaboration in economic, social, and
cultural matters and for collective self defense,” in Brussels, by England, France, the
Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. In 1950, its functions were transferred to NATO, and in
May, 1955, a military alliance, known as the Council of Western European Union was
established, made up of the foreign ministers from Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, the