TRAGEDY OF EUROPE

Chronicle (Levin), 20 September 1946, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF EUROPE

Press Assn

Mr. Churchill Ur'ges Unity so people may be happy

By Telegraph

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Received Friday, 1.0 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 19. First step towards tlie recreation oi' the Euroi)ean Family must be a partnership between France and Germany, said JVlr. Churchill in a speeeli at Zurieh Universily. He opened his speech with the words: "1 want 1o speak 1.o you about the tragedy oi' Europe. Ii' Europe united in sharing its common inheritance there is no limit to Ihe happiness and prosperity its people might enjoy." The eatasti'ophe which would follovv Ihe use oi! the atomie bomb by warring nations would not ouly bring au end to eivilisntion but also might possibly disintegrate I he globe itself, he said. The homb was still only in the hands of a nalion thev knew would never use it exeept in the eause oi' right and j'reedom. Some of the smallcr nations had indeed made a good reco\rery from the war but "quivering, tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered liumans wait at the I'liins of their cities and honies, scanning the dark horizon for the approach oi' some new tyranny and terror. There is the babel oi voices among the victors and solenm silence and d.espair among the vanquished. Tliat is all the Germanic races got iYom tearing each other to pieees and spreading havoc i'ar and wide. II Aineriea hadn't at last realised tliat the i*u i n or ensla vemont oi' Europe would involve lier own i'atc, and stretched out hands of siKcour and guidance, tlie dark ages would have returned with all Iheir cruelty and squalor. "Yet there is a remedy which if generously and spontaneously adopted by tlie grcat majority of the people oi' Ihe many lands, would, as if by a niiracle, transform the wliole scene and niake Europe as i'ree and liappy as Switzerland today. "What is tliat sovereign remedy? It is to recreate the E'uropean i'abrie and provide it with the structure whereunder the people ea n live. in peaee, safety and freedom. "We' must build a kind of united states of Europe. Thus only will hundreds of millions be able to regain the simple. joys and hopes whieh mnke life worth living. Tlie Eoague of Nations didn't fail because of its principles and oneeptions but because those princi])les were deserted by the states which brought it into being aivH, because ihe Government of those states feared to i'ace the i'aets and act while time.remains. This disaster must not be repeated. "There is no reason why a regional organisation of Europe should in any way eonflict. with the world organisation of United Nations. On the e.ontrnry, .1 believe the larger synthesis will survive if founded on inherent national groupings. There are aTready natural groupings of the wext erii h em'isph ere. - We Brit-ish have nu* own Oommomvealth of NatioBs. . Th esd i'fjoh 'i . Hy^akfri— 011 ihe oontrary liliey streftgtherr— - j the world organisation. They, in ] fact. are tlie main support. "Is there need for further floods of agony? Ls history 's onlv lessoii to be that mankind is im- , teachahle? Let there be justiee, in i i'''y and freedom."