I thought the Four freedoms went back to Churchill and Roosevelt about
1940-42 (probably pre-Pearl Harbor) and were more broadly defined, like
Freedom of conscience, etc. Maybe the EEC people were parodying/adapting
that idea?
Chris, whose undergraduate history course stopped very firmly in September
1939
>
> > From: Loring, Abigail <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: The four freedoms of goods, services, capital and people
> >
> > I have been asked to find out why the EC chose the four
> freedoms back
> > in 1957. Does anyone have a book on the formation of the
> Treaty of
> > Rome which discusses this, or debates between the people who
> signed
> > the treaty. I have tried the depository libraries and a couple
> of
> > European Documentation Centres with little success as no
> documentation
> > is held prior to the UK joining in the 70s.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Abigail Loring
> > Clifford Chance
> > 0171 600 1000 x 5188
> > [log in to unmask]
>
> I can't find a precise answer but it's worth looking at:
> >From EC to EU: an historical & political survey/ by Richard McAllister
> Routledge, 1997 which has a very good bibliography, or at any of the
> official European websites, especially Europa (there are links from
> my web page, URL given below). The four freedoms were already
> established in the Spaak report of 1956 which followed the Messina
> conference in 1955.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Patrick Overy
> EDC Librarian, University of Exeter
> Law Library
> Amory Building
> Rennes Drive
> EXETER EX4 4RJ
>
> Tel. (01392) 263356
> Fax (01392) 263196
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.ex.ac.uk/~pcovery/lib/eurostudies.html
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