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...timed pamphlet setting forth its attitude toward Western European integration (see below), the British Labor Party had gone far beyond the understandable, if disappointing, caution which the British government had so far displayed toward the Schuman Plan. Despite all of Prime Minister Clement Attlee's subsequent attempts to soften the blow, the Labor Party had finally, bluntly admitted what it had long suggested by its actions: it was dead set against any scheme of European union that was 1) not controlled by Socialists, 2) involved a sacrifice of national sovereignty, i.e., the national Socialist's sovereign right...
...best hopes. British officials last week cagily lifted a few inches of heavy wrapping from something called the Plowden Plan. Drafted by Treasury's Chairman of the Economic Planning Board Sir Edwin Plowden, it offered as its main feature a coal-steel pool without the sweeping powers which Schuman had called for. It held out some strictly limited hope that a practical compromise between the British and the continental powers might yet be reached. Nervously the British declared that they would be glad to submit the Plowden Plan at the Paris conference-if any one asked them to. Reported...
...Paris conference on the Schuman Plan (see above), and the paper reported on a pamphlet entitled European Unity, put out by the Labor Party's National Executive Committee. The day the pamphlet reached the public, Attlee was slated to explain to the House of Commons that despite Britain's aloof attitude, the British government really wanted to cooperate in the Schuman Plan -at least in considering it. Yet the sweeping, truculent pamphlet seemed to proclaim to all the world that the British Labor Party wanted to do nothing more than blow the Schuman Plan to smithereens...
Surprise. The brown-covered, 15-page booklet (price: 3d.) violently rejected not only the Schuman Plan but the whole idea of an integrated Western Europe based on a free economy. The only way Western Europe could be saved, said the Labor Party's little book, was through Socialist planning and public ownership of industry. Britain must not surrender any of its sovereignty to a supranational body, since such a body would be dominated by non-Socialists who would interfere with Britain's domestic planning. The pamphlet also came out flatly against a Council of Europe with any real...
...works long before Schuman made his dramatic proposal, the pamphlet had originally been intended to clarify the policy of the Labor Party, which had been divided on the issue of Western European federation. By the time the drafting committee got through with it, the small group favoring federation had been silenced. The finished document bore the arrogant, doctrinaire mark of its chief author, Minister of Town & Country Planning Hugh Dalton, whose bumbling indiscretions had gotten him and his government into trouble before...