Uniting Europe After WWII
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Churchill Meant by the European Union
He was toying with trying to get the British Empire in, if and when the empire ever went. He said he considered briefly at least making the royal family of Great Britain the hereditary presidents of Pan Europa. But he gave that up because he realized the Brits were too free occupied with India. It would have been republican. Has all the full fully fledged things you'd expect on a quasi-federal state. The key thing was the court of arbitration - this was the way of stopping there being any wars inside the new state. That would be much better than going to war.
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