[Music] At the Hague are gathered 800 delegates representing 23 European nations. Men and women of all walks of life. They like France's wartime premier Edward Delier have come to seek the first United States of Europe.
The Dutch royal couple welcoming Mr. Churchill and Anthony Eden greet the delegates who include Leslie Hall Bicia. Not sponsored by any one government yet willed by every nation.
The Hague meeting seems to the people of Europe another groping but positive step for peace. Winston Churchill in his role as world statesman presides over the inaugural session. Party politics are thrust into the background as the man who gave Europe back its freedom receives the acclaim of its representatives.
In the countries around them, the Hague delegates see other hopeful signs for a united Europe. The fivepowered alliance signed at Brussels last month. Above all, the economic cooperation created by the Marshall Plan nations.
As France's ex-socialist premier Ramadier addresses the conference, it becomes clear that this movement is one that transcends all parties and all frontiers. [Music] Zaland addresses the delegates. As he speaks, the plan for the continent's federation becomes brighter.
[Applause] [Music] Calling a Europe desperately seeking a sign of hope amid a mass of war talk. Winston Churchill says this is not a movement of parties but a movement of peoples. It must be all for all.
Europe can only be united by the heartfelt wish and vehement expression of the great majority of all the peoples in all the parties in all the freedom loving countries no matter where they dwell or how they vote. We cannot aim at anything less than the union of Europe as a whole. And we look forward with confidence to the day when that union will be achieved.
