Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turks and the Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe can look to a new wave of forced agreements between unequal bargaining units that would spell death to the U.N. system and smack too strongly of the pilgrimages of European statesmen to Berchtesgaden...
...inequitable decisions of the peacemakers." His fear: that a division of Germany into two zones (economically or politically) would mean the division of Europe into two hostile camps. His recommendation: "What we need is a concert of powers and not a balance of power. Not two Europes under non-European guidance, but one Europe belonging to Europeans...
...remain with us, and if you play the role which we expect of you, a European community will be built in which there will be room for a German community. On the contrary, if you draw away from us ... Britain will be (or will consider herself) obliged to rebuild Germany against Russia, while Russia will be (or will consider herself) forced to rebuild Germany against Britain. In either case, Europe, instead of becoming a virtual community, will become a virtual battlefield...
...World- or Two? "[The] great sources of wealth on German soil should be exploited for the benefit of all the European community, including Germany, instead of being exploited by Germany against the European community, as was the case until now. . . . Is it fair and reasonable that you should be obliged to send us coal . . . when the Ruhr is at our gates? ... In order that a it is European necessary that . . community . be the Ruhr [be] constituted, <| placed under international authority...
Koestler's only hope, more a counsel of despair than a hope, is for a West European federation-including France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer...