Blueprints of Hope

Blueprints

The Future of Europe (Third Draft)

J.H. Oldham and Dennis Routh, the secretary of the British Peace Aims Group, drafted a blueprint together in 1943, the year in which PAG lost its founder William Paton. They contended that one of the goals of utmost importance for the immediate post-war era would be to create ‘common institutions and agencies’, both in economics and politics, ‘to embody the growing sense of European unity’, although Great Britain itself was not taken to be part of that Europe by Oldham and Routh.

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The blueprint is courtesy of the WCC Archives in Geneva and republished here with permission.

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