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The Three Circles
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- Did Churchill overestimated the role of Britain at the time ?
- Today, can the UK become a major driving force for the EU ?
The THREE CIRCLES
Monday, February 17, 2014
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Vol XCIII, No. 311
Let's start with ...
In March 1946 , the former British Prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech at the University of Fulton, MO
The main goal of its speech was to urge tho Occidental nations to restablish the democratic principles in the Estearn bloc States.
The same year, in September, he made another speech in Zurich in which he talked about United Europe. His idea was to unify the European countries in order to promote prosperity and above all build a strong opposition to the soviet threat.
Two years later, Winston Churchill puts his vision forward about the situation of the UK.
III. The three circles theory in itself
I. A vision of the past and future
A. The UK as a junction of three majestic circles
- A very precise order : the Commonwealth, the English-speaking word and United Europe
- "We are the only country which has a great part in every one of them"
- An advocacy for United Europe ?
A. Post WW2 context : preserving peace?
B. The new world order: an opportunity to make a new wide alliance
B. Can the "three majestic circles theory" be applied to the actual context ?
- "Endless trials" : 4 massive group of trials from 1945 to 1948
- Great Britain as a judge
- "The mind and soul of Germany may once again be hanging in the balance between the right course and the wrong"
- Japan occupation and the new Constitution
- "Let bygones by bygones"
- A strategic position leading to a wide alliance
- The future of the European Union at stake (referendum and so on)
- "Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness " David Cameron
- The UK still close to the US ?
European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth
Nigel Farage
To conclude...
Churchill highlights the necessity to build a strong alliance between the states which advocate the democracy in order to form a wide Occidental bloc able to contain the Communism
The « three majestic circles » theory was quite representative of the new world order at the time.
But nowadays, in practice, we cannot assert that the UK has the same influence that during the post-war period
II. The Cold War at stake
B. The need to rally around the American leadership
A. The aggressiveness of the USSR
- the Churchillian pragmatic vision
- "developing the closest possible unity with the US"
- no division to fight against the Soviet threat
- Berlin blockade starts in June, 24th
- Issue : the newly introduced Deutschemark in West Berlin.
- Berlin airlift organized by the Western Allies to carry supplies to West Berliners