Word: kalergi
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...draw any more," Bernhard Jager complained. "Everything begins to move on this picture. The ears of a wolf turn into a burning pine forest." Artist Gerhard Hoehme observed: "The paper in front of me turned into a room in which I became lost." Michael Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi watched his precise draftsmanship disintegrate into chaos...
...Churchill launched his movement for a United Europe, Count Richard Couden-hove-Kalergi, a tireless Pan-Europist from the 1920s, summoned a group of European parliamentarians to discuss political unity, the European Union of Federalists urged Europe to "federate now." and in 1949 most of these groups came together to establish the Council of Europe. Skeptics refused to believe that anything practical would ever come of these idealistic and largely futile efforts. And yet the power of the ideal itself would not fade. Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga expressed it better than anyone else...
Died. Countess Ida Coudenhove-Kalergi, fiftyish, onetime Viennese actress, longtime collaborator with her Austrian-Japanese husband, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, in his career as the founder and most articulate advocate of the Pan-European Union, designed to combat nationalism and prevent war; of a heart attack; in Nyon, Switzerland...
...intellectual Austrian historian, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, ten years before saw a solution for the Continent's troubles in a European federation, Streit saw a solution for the whole world's troubles in a federation of all the democracies, including the U.S. But where Coudenhove-Kalergi thought of nationalism as a deep-seated disease, Streit simply refused to take it into his serious calculations...
There were a few islands of elegance in the sea of shabbiness: Britain's Anthony Eden; Princess Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhard; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Central European internationalist who for over two decades had been a tireless crusader for a united Europe. Churchill wore a long frock coat such as most British politicians discarded around World War I. It was just possible that the old trouper was trying to look more "European," a little less John Bull...