EVIDENCE AGAINST US OF EU

• WSC believed in Britain's imperial role and the maintenance of the Empire. This involved special economic relations with the Empire/CW Besides the Empire, wsc saw the relationship with the US as essential in meeting the threat to Europe from expanding USSR in the Cold War period - more so than other EU countries, WSC didn't advocate joining post-war EU organisations such as the European Coal and Steel Community & he made it clear to the Cabinet in 1951 that it was not his policy to become an integral part of a European Federation and the priority should be maintaining the Empire/Commonwealth.
• France and Britain had not been on good terms - Britain resented the French surrender (1940) and France remember the sinking of the French fleet by Britain. Many French people had supported the Vichy regime and de Gaulle, alongside his supporters, had not been on good terms with WSC during the war. WSC saw the limitations on relying too much on Europe especially as post-war Europe was still suffering from the effects of the war and only gradually as well a divided.
• WSC did not favour much more than a loose association of European nations affirming shared values and the Britain's was always vague. Whilst there were calls for many large projects, The Hague Congress in 1948 was never actually signed.