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Churchill coined the term "United States of Europe" in a Saturday Evening Post article in February 1930. He believed that "obsolete hatreds" could be appeased by the American federalist model, but that Britain would not belong. "We have our own dreams. We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked but not compromised."
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The United States has been promoted as a model for Europe for a very long time.
From a late March 1848 issue of
The London Times ...italics in original.
"Let them [ed. Europe] observe the working of federalism in America. The most complete national unity is there preserved as regards foreign nations; complete freedom of trade, complete uniformity of action in all respects essential to national life; while, at the same time, the inestimable habit of self government is created and retained, and the power of adapting local institutions to local wants exercised so fully, that no American citizen has to complain that the interests of his locality suffer by the distance or neglect of the legislative centre. The German in Pennsylvania, the Frenchmen in Louisiana, the Spaniard in Florida, had no need, when they came to participate in the advantages of the great American Union, of sacrificing one iota of the local institutions to which they were attached. So wonderfully elastic and expansive is this principle of government, that the entire American continent might, as it appears to us, be absorbed in one vast federation, with but little inconvenience or danger resulting from its extent and diversity of characteristics.
At the end of the Times article
Littel's Living Age [the US Journal the Times article appeared in] editorializes...
"Suppose these European nations to have settled their governments, and then to have made a Federal Union of the whole, within which peace and free trade should be perpetual, as they are between our states. And then suppose the United States of America were invited to join with the United States of Europe, not in political connection, but on the basis of peace and free trade! We desire to prepare our readers for such a question. It may not soon happen, but almost all Christian people think it has been clearly revealed in the Bible that it will come to pass. Who is ready to welcome the time?"
Those last few lines might indicate a bit of British Israelism...as might certain of the statements by Churchill from this threads main article
May 13, 1848
Littel's Living Age article entitled 'The London Times Praising America' pg 322-324
Cornell University Making of America