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...Gaullists compose a second force within Western Europe. "This group is like the Federalists in that it believes in common European culture and Europe as an entity in itself," Hoffman explained. Yet the de Gaullists "favor inter-governmental negotiation rather than the super-national state...
...stalemate" existing within the climate of European opinion lies in this question of whether to unite politically as a monolithic super-national state as the integrationists urge or to unite inter-governmentally as the de Gaullists insist...
...least those interested in Latin America have provided a "focus of attention" on the area by coordinating all the committees into an odd bureaucratic apparatus: the Inter-American (University-wide) Affairs Committee will act as an adviser to Pusey who is to determine basic policy for all future activity in the field. Unfortunately--ingenious as it is--the mechanism simply cannot free Latin American studies from its most binding limitation: lack of staff...
...persistence of the "war-guilt" idea had the same frustrating effect on inter-war diplomacy. It was obvious that the New Europe which the war to end all wars had been meant to create was a fiction. But the war-guilt clause, precisely because it was unpredecented and, indeed, a revolutionary conception in European diplomacy, made even the restoration of the old Europe impossible...
...called "policy of appeasement," as it operated to allow German expansion into the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia, was the final explosion of inter-war diplomatic confusion. Under Hitler, Germany achieved sufficient strength to demand serious and thoughtful consideration of her status. The West, wanting to settle the First World War once and for all, but feeling that this could not possibly involve another war, convinced itself that Hitler was justified in almost all his claims. Or, that resistance was pointless, for it could only cause further disruption of orderly diplomacy...