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Council of Europe

Great Britain · Politics / Conservative Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1949

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill5 May 1949

Politics / Conservative Party

The Statute of the Council of Europe is signed in London by ten founding states, advancing the European cooperation Churchill had publicly advocated after the war.

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

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