Footfalls echoing in the memory. Britain and Europe: The historical perspective

International Affairs

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 689-701

  Bogdanor, Vernon ^a  

^a Gresham College   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 22544475010     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2005.00479.x     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968), vol. 3: Salvation, pp. 726-7. First published by Librarie Plon, Paris, 1959 as Le Salut.
2. Cited in Michael Charlton, The price of victory (London: BBC Publications, 1983), pp. 19-20.
3. Cited in John Lukacs, The last European war (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), p. 496.
4. Max Beloff, 'The Anglo-French union project of June 1940", in The intellectual in politics (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), pp. 172-99 at p. 174.
5. This essay was first published in the Mélanges Pierre Renouvin (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1966).
6. See also David Thomson, The project for Anglo-French union in 1940 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
7. The text of the declaration can be found in Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 2: Their finest hour (London: Cassell, 1949), pp. 183-4.
8. Beloff, 'The Anglo-French union project', p. 199. Reynaud was speaking to the deputy ambassador of the United States.
9. Beloff, 'The Anglo-French union project', p. 198. It is only fair to add that, towards the end of his life, Max Beloff changed his view completely and became a vehement Eurosceptic.
10. See his final book, Britain and European unity, significantly subtitled A dialogue of the deaf (London: Macmillan, 1996).
11. Winston Churchill, A history of the English-speaking peoples, vol. 4: The great democracies, Chartwell edn (London: Educational Book Company, 1958), p. 329 (emphasis added).
12. Quoted in David Vital, The making of British foreign policy (London: Allen & Unwin, 1968), pp. 100-1.
13. Charlton, The price of victory, p. 157.
14. Cited in Charlton, The price of victory, p. 302.
15. Charlton, The price of victory, pp. 305-4, 7.
16. Mr. Churchill's declaration of policy to the electorate', in Conservative Party general election manifestos, 1900-97 (London: Politico's, 2000), p. 60.
17. Con O'Neill, Britain's entry into the European Community (London: Frank Cass, 2000), p. 47.
18. See S. M. Lipset and Stein Rokkan, 'Introduction', in Lipset and Rokkan, eds, Party systems and voter alignments (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1967).
19. Speech at Dundee, 23 Sept. 1983, reprinted in Conservative Research Department, Handbook for Europe (London: CRD, 1984), p. 45.
20. Some British critics of the European Constitutional Treaty have claimed that the recognition in it of the superiority of European law to the law of the member states marks a profound change. In fact, this is no more than a codification of arrangements which have long existed.
21. I once heard a Conservative MP at a meeting refer to the late Commissioner Finn Gundelach as an 'official'. Mr Gundelach bristled. M. Delors would, one suspect, have bristled even more.
22. J. A. Griffith, Michael Ryle and M. A. J. Wheeler-Booth, Parliament: functions, practice and procedures (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1989), p. 270.
23. Bernard Crick, The reform of Parliament, 2nd edn (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970), passim.
24. Select Committee on the European Communities, Relations between the UK Parliament and the European Parliament after direct elections, vol. 2, HL 256: 1977/78, p. 186.
25. Cited in Lukacs, The last European war, p. 512.
26. Cited in David Carlton, Anthony Eden (London: Allen Lane, 1981), p. 339.