Churchill Concentrates On European Union Inaugurates Hague Congress. The Hague - Smoke curls from Winston Churchill's fat cigar as, seated behind water carafe and glasses, he apparently concentrates on the speech he was to deliver at the inaugural meeting of the Congress of Europe in the hall of knights in the Dutch capital with him is the former socialist premier of France, M. Paul Ramadier. Churchill was wildly acclaimed by delegates of 23 nations including the 16 in the Marshall Plan - when he called for the immediate establishment of a European Assembly and asked: 'Shall so many millions of humble homes in Europe sit quaking in dread of the policeman's knock?' The Congress, he declared, must be a movement of peoples not of parties -"it must be all for all'. May 08, 1948.