It is increasingly understood, clearly in some quarters and hazily as yet in others, that effective political organization does not mean self-limitation by treaties which may or may not be observed, but requires a transfer of certain powers from the people in individual states to the people of the European state. It may be paradoxical but is nevertheless true that the greater the need and the nearer the approach to this act, the more difficult it becomes formally to effect the change. The struggle centers on the different approaches made by the “federalists,” who favor a European state with a government of limited but effective powers, and the “functionalists,” who believe that inter-governmental cooperation will suffice to meet successive problems. That this is a split which cuts across national boundaries was made abundantly clear at Strasbourg in August when members of nearly every delegation divided into the two camps.…
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