On 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill, British Conservative leader, gives an address at the University of Zurich in which he identifies Franco-German reconciliation and the establishment of a European organisation as conditions for peace and liberty throughout the continent.

On 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, gives an address at the University of Zurich in which he invites European countries to form a United States of Europe.

View of the hall in the University of Zurich which played host to the former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, on 19 September 1946.

On 20 September 1946, the Italian daily newspaper Il nuovo Corriere della Sera sets out the main points of Winston Churchill’s call for European unity, which was made in an address given the previous day at the University of Zurich.

On the occasion of the address given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich on 19 September 1946, the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir comments on the former British Prime Minister’s support for a United States of Europe based on Franco–German reconciliation.

On 21 September 1946, the French daily newspaper Le Monde comments on the address given two days earlier by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich in support of Franco–German reconciliation and European unity.

On 24 September 1946, the German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung welcomes the address given five days earlier by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich in support of a United States of Europe based on Franco–German cooperation.

On 27 September 1946, commenting on the pro-European address given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich, the Brussels newspaper Le Phare Dimanche speculates on the concept of a European federation.

On 18 January 1947, the German daily newspaper Die Welt speculates on the concept of a United States of Europe and welcomes the action taken by Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, in favour of European unity.

In July 1947, Winston Churchill, leader of the British Conservative Party, writes an article which is published in the French federalist periodical Fédération stressing the importance of a united Europe.

Fifty years after the address given by Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister, at the University of Zurich on 19 September 1946, the German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung analyses the repercussions of Churchill’s vision of the future of Europe.

In his memoirs, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Paneuropean Union in Vienna in 1923, describes the impact of the address given by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on 19 September 1946 at the University of Zurich in which he called for the establishment of a Council of Europe.