Abstract
This paper discusses experience of representatives of three European small powers assembled in the London during WWII - Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland. A common cause, comparable setting and frequent contacts created a promising framework for a new quality of their mutual relations that could, eventually, endorse the European idea. This proved to be at best a partial success: The exiles acted by-and-large as guardians of national interests and identities. As such, and owing to their strained position, they paid considerable attention to status as a principal asset. They subscribed of internalization of their foreign policies and learned or refined their experience with its practices. Yet their visions remained rather regional, with only occasional reference to the idea of European Integration. Albeit the exiles failed to integrate the nations they spoke for, they established closer and better informed transnational ties bound to affect European politics in the years to come. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-6336_13_6
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Publicado por: URL persistente: DOI: Centro de Informação Europe Direct de Aveiro; Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX
An advocate of the Slovaks against Hungarian oppresion at the beginning of the century, so that the issue would be bypassed.[20]. He was appointed as charge daffaires ad interim when Norwegian-Czechoslovak relations were restored in October 194021
This discussion reveals the hierarchy amonglittle Allies, i.e. states fighting Axis and not counting to theBig Three (Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States)
Summary
The quality of mutual contacts from the interwar period which the exiles were to build upon varied greatly. An advocate of the Slovaks against Hungarian oppresion at the beginning of the century, so that the issue would be bypassed.[20] He was appointed as charge daffaires ad interim when Norwegian-Czechoslovak relations were restored in October 194021. This discussion reveals the hierarchy amonglittle Allies, i.e. states fighting Axis and not counting to theBig Three (Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States). The Norwegians were asked for continuation of diplomatic relations with the Central Europeans rather than the other way around They perceived the difference in status of the Poles and that of the Czechs and the Slovaks. The main disagreement was about the Soviet Union, before and definitely after it was invaded on
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