ABSTRACT
The legacy of the era of 1914–1945 was the effort to focus on a common core of cultural and humanistic values, with the goal of creating a new, united Europe after World War II. Britain emerged as the center of renewed pro-Europeanist activities. Several British associations favored schemes that had ties to pacifism and included the League of Nations as a major player. There were new efforts to create an integrated Europe as the war reached its latter stages. One proposal came from Europe's resistance movements. The European projects of World War II built on the legacy of European ideas going back to the years of World War I. While the wartime proposals were not new, they fulfilled two purposes. First, they kept the discussion about Europeanism alive. Second, the men and women who conceived European federal plans actively pursued them, thereby allying theory and practice.
