TY - GEN
T1 - The ambassadorship of Sir Oliver Harvey, 1948-54
AU - Pastor-Castro, Rogelia
PY - 2014/4/3
Y1 - 2014/4/3
N2 - Oliver Harvey’s six years at the Embassy would see Anglo-French relations become the foundation stone for wider Western European co-operation. After 1948 Britain and France took a leading role in the Marshall Plan, the Treaty of Dunkirk paved the way for closer European defence co-operation, with the establishment of the Brussels Pact in 1948, then the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. But Harvey’s ambassadorship would also see the emergence of conflicting British and French conceptions of European integration and European security. Two issues in particular tested Harvey as an ambassador, the Schuman Plan declaration of May 1950 and the issue of West German rearmament, which became linked to the European Defence Community.
AB - Oliver Harvey’s six years at the Embassy would see Anglo-French relations become the foundation stone for wider Western European co-operation. After 1948 Britain and France took a leading role in the Marshall Plan, the Treaty of Dunkirk paved the way for closer European defence co-operation, with the establishment of the Brussels Pact in 1948, then the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. But Harvey’s ambassadorship would also see the emergence of conflicting British and French conceptions of European integration and European security. Two issues in particular tested Harvey as an ambassador, the Schuman Plan declaration of May 1950 and the issue of West German rearmament, which became linked to the European Defence Community.
KW - British Embassy
KW - Franco-British relations
KW - Oliver Harvey
KW - European integration
KW - European security
M3 - Conference contribution book
SP - 14
EP - 17
BT - The History, Role and Functions of the Paris Embassy
A2 - Kandiah, M.D.
CY - London
ER -