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BRITAIN’S EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT

DAVID SEYMOUR/MAGNUM

FOUNDING FATHERS

Winston Churchill, left, and French Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Schuman, in Strasbourg, France, in 1950. Both men believed only a united Europe could maintain peace on the continent after World War II. That same year, Schuman proposed the first pan-European bloc, which ultimately became the European Union.

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