Civi GB du 31/01/11
The speech is his vision of the "United states of Europe"

League of Nations (Sté des nations)--->1st organisation trying to regulate international relations, but failed to keep peace...WW2 europe has all the ingredients to be a haven (=havre) of peace and prosperity, but everything has been ruined, because of Germany/German nations.
The main disease of Europe is nationalism (and nazism) victors: vainqueurs
Tha dark ages, the war may return. For him, there is still a risk. Europeans have to unite. toilers:workers Aristid Briend: created the league of nations--->1905:l'origine de la loi de séparation de l'église et de l'état
Churchill is visionary: he speaks about partnership between France and Germany (and a reconcilliation)
De Gaulle-adenauer cooperation. later
ECSC(CECA): European Coal and Steel community 1950
Britain, the Commonwealth, Europe.
The commonwealth played a role in the negociation with europe.
The last negociation took place in 1971, because all the nation that had been part of the British Empire, had become independent. But these countries still had strong relations with Britain. I- From Empier to common wealth
Britain was linked to some countris. These links could not be erased in an instant. Biggest empire in the 19th country. Most colonies were conquered before 19th century. Britain added her last colony after the war. Germany and its allier had to give some of its territories, ex: Tanzania, Zanzibar.
The British encouraged arab countries to become independent from the Ottoman empire.
It does not mean that each countriess accepted to be dominated by Britain.On seeing this, the british decided to create a new concept, which was the concept of dominion (1926): some countries were considered as mature enough to be given some kind of self government: Canada, New zealand, Australia and South Africa: those were only "white" colonies (in South Africa, black people didn't count). These countries still followed the