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Winston Churchill Y Europa Año 3 | nº 07 Septiembre-diciembre 2016 ISSN 2386-5776 Winston Churchill y Europa Winston Churchill and Europe Editor / Editor: Alberto Priego. Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE Editor Invitado / Guest Editor: Sir Allen Packwood. Director. Churchill Archives Centre. Churchill College. Cambridge Uninversity Allen Packwood, Alan Watson, João Carlos Espada, Cat Wilson, Antoine Capet & Warren Dockter Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales SUMARIO Año 3 | nº 07 Septiembre-diciembre 2016 Nota del coordinador del número 7 ....................................................................................................................... III Allen Packwood ARTÍCULOS I ARTICLES Churchill and the United States of Europe, 1904-1948 .....................................................................................1 Churchill y los Estados Unidos de Europa (1904-1948) Allen Packwood Two Speeches that changed the World: From Fulton to Zurich ..................................................................... 10 Dos discursos que cambiaron el mundo: de Fulton a Zurich Alan John Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond Churchill and the European Tradition of Liberty ............................................................................................... 21 Churchill y la tradición europea de libertad João Carlos Espada The impact of the Commonwealth on Churchill’s Europe .............................................................................. 32 El impacto de la Commonwealth en la Europa de Churchill Cat Wilson Churchill & France .................................................................................................................................................... 43 Churchill y Francia Antoine Capet Churchill, Europe and Turkey .................................................................................................................................. 57 Churchill, Europa y Turquía Warren Dockter RECENSIONES I BOOK REVIEWS which european union? europe after the euro Crisis | Sergio fabbrini .....................................................69 Por Andrea Betti Director de la Revista I Journal Editor ....................................................................................................................... 72 Consejo de Redacción I Editorial Board ................................................................................................................... 72 Consejo Asesor I Advisory Board .............................................................................................................................. 72 Directrices para Autores I Author Guidelines ............................................................................................................ 73 Comillas Journal of International Relations | nº 07 | [2016] [ISSN 2386-5776] III Nota del Coordinador del Número 7 As Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, home to the personal papers of Sir Winston and many of his contemporaries, it is a great honour to be asked to be the guest editor of this edition of the Comillas Journal of International Relations. The idea of an edition on Churchill and Europe was first mooted because 2016 was the seventieth anniversary of Churchill»s famous Zurich speech: a celebrated address in which he urged Franco-German reconciliation and called for “a kind of United States of Europe”. Little did I know that I would be assembling these articles against the backdrop of the United Kingdom European Referendum Campaign and the withdrawal of Britain from the European Union: a heated debate in which both sides tried to trace the origins of their arguments back to Churchill in the immediate post war period. To the Leave campaign he was the icon of British independence who had claimed that Britain was with Europe but not of Europe: to the Remainers he was the leader of the British United Europe campaign and a supporter of the creation of new Council of Europe in which Britain would be represented. The truth of course is that we cannot know how he would have voted today, but we can gain much from studying his relationship with Europe and trying to understand how he approached international relations with his closest neighbours. The volume draws on the work of a range of Churchill scholars from around the continent, and approaches it subject from a number of different perspectives. Professor Joao Espada from the Catholic University of Portugal argues that Churchill»s driving philosophy was a belief in a European civilisation informed by a particularly English and American understanding of individual liberty. Professor Antoine Capet of the University of Rouen charts Churchill»s ever present but changing personal and political relationship with France and illustrates how this “special relationship” is vital to any understanding of Churchill»s wider engagement of Europe. But Churchill»s European strategy was also shaped from without, as is illustrated by two early career scholars. Dr Warren Dockter of Clare Hall, Cambridge, reveals how Churchill saw and sought to use Turkey as the bridge between Europe and the Middle East, while Dr Cat Wilson looks at the impact of the Commonwealth on Churchill»s post war European vision. I look at how Churchill developed the concept of “the United States of Europe” in his own writings and speeches, while Lord Watson explains the background and significance of his 1946 Zurich speech, and Dr Valentina Villa of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan documents his role in the post war European movement. There is no doubt that Europe was central to Churchill»s thinking on international relations, how could it be otherwise. I hope this volume will illuminate the philosophic underpinnings and the practical policies that informed his attitude to the problems of dealing with a continent that, for him, was both a source of inspiration, culture, history and enjoyment, and the cradle of so much division and war. Sir Allen Packwood Director, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge [email protected] Comillas Journal of International Relations | nº 07 | 001-009 [2016] [ISSN 2386-5776] 1 DOI: cir.i07.y2016.001 CHURCHILL AND THE UNITed STATES OF EUROPE, 1904-1948 Churchill y los Estados Unidos de Europa, 1904-1948 Allen Packwood Director, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge Autor E-mail: [email protected] The call for a “United States of Europe” is a recurring theme in the writings and speeches of Sir Winston Churchill from at least 1930, and reaches its culmination in his opening address to Abstract the Congress of Europe held at The Hague in May 1948. This article analyses Churchill’s own writings and oratory to trace the origins of his support for closer European union. Initially he envisaged Britain as a guarantor and facilitator of European unity, but by 1948 he had become an advocate of a role for Britain within Europe. This shift in thinking is followed through analy- sis of his language and explained in terms of the historical context. Winston Churchill; European integration; United States of Europe; oratory; rhetoric; speeches. Key words Winston Churchill; integración europea; Estados Unidos de Europa; oratoria, retórica; discursos. La propuesta de unos Estados Unidos de Europa es un tema recurrente en los escritos y discursos de Sir Winston Churchill a partir de al menos 1930, y culminó en su discurso inaugural ante el Congreso Resumen de Europa que se reunió en La Haya en mayo de 1948. Este artículo analiza los escritos y la oratoria de Churchill con el fin de rastrear los orígenes de su apoyo a una integración europea. Inicialmente, Churchill imaginaba que Reino Unido actuaría como garante y promotora de la unidad europea, pero en 1948 ya se había convertido en defensor del rol británico dentro de Europa. Este artículo describe el cambio de su pensamiento a través del análisis de su lenguaje y lo explica en relación con el contexto histórico. Recibido: 19-7-2016. Aceptado: 26-11-2016. Fechas Comillas Journal of International Relations | nº 07 | 001-009 [2016] [ISSN 2386-5776] 2 “We must build a KIND of United States of Europe” Winston S. Churchill, University of Zurich, 19 September 1946 This article was written in May 2016, ahead of the United Kingdom referendum on mem- bership of the European Union, when the subject of Winston Churchill and Europe was an especially emotive one. Both the leave and remain campaigns were trying to posthumously enlist his support. The ghost of Churchill was simultaneously being summoned both as an icon of modern British independence, and as a founding father of European unity. Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of London, and leading Brexit campaigner had perhaps already forgotten that his own chapter on “Churchill The European” in his 2014 biography of Sir Winston concluded that it was absurd to speculate on what Churchill would have thought about the European debate of today, writing, “We cannot tax the great man in this querulous way. He cannot hear us. The oracle is dumb” (Johnson, 2014). This article seeks to explain the origin, development and changing meaning of the Churchillian Winston Churchill’s phrase “United States of Europe” within the context, not of the recent debate, but that of the early life was not times in which Churchill was living and operating. It takes as a starting point the first appea- rance of the phrase in Churchill’s papers in 1904 and follows the concept through to its fullest marked
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