Word: kalergi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CRUSADE FOR PAN-EUROPE-Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi-Putnam...
...answer to that "how" is Count Coudenhove-Kalergi's Crusade for Pan-Europe. The Count is serving at present at New York University as the somewhat obscure director of a research seminar on a postwar European federation. But from 1919 to 1940 Coudenhove-Kalergi might have been found in any one of a dozen European capitals, now plucking the sleeve of the sympathetic Aristide Briand, now arguing his case for a federated Europe with noncommittal Englishmen, sometimes going so far as to lobby Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht or Benito Mussolini...
...Peoples v. Land Peoples. Unfortunately for the future peace of a continent, Europeans themselves are by no means agreed on the truth or falsity of Count Coudenhove-Kalergi's ideas. The Europeans have many answers to the "how," and no doubt the arguments in the concentration camps behind the walls of Festung Europa are as diverse as the populations that Hitler has enslaved. Fear of Russian intentions, fear of chaos, fear of the liquidation of the middle classes, fear of the possible postwar recrudescence of German might - these are merely a few of the fears that provoke Europeans...
...unite as the Swiss cantons have united, or the U.S.A.? Conceivably a federated Continent, based on a Bill of Rights and a Constitution, could live in peace with itself and be no menace to anyone who refrained from attacking it. The grand crusade carried on by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi ever since Versailles has been motivated by the belief that a united Europe need be no menace either to Britain on the west or Soviet Russia on the east. The Count has only to look into his own heart-or his own lineage-to know that nationalism is, as he says...
East and West. From his father, Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi, the boy also learned the "oneness" of the European idea. The Coudenhoves originally rose to great estate in The Netherlands and Belgium. They followed their dukes from the Low Countries into Austria when the French Revolution turned Europe upside down. The Kalergis originated as a family with a great name in Grecian Crete. Eventually the Coudenhoves and the Kalergis came together, but only after mixing their bloods with the blood of Balts, Germans, Norwegians and Polish Russians. Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi's union with a Japanese girl was quite in line...