Word: kalergi
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...Eighty-one Americans, including Historian James Truslow Adams, John W. Davis, Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Senator Carl A. Hatch, and General Electric's Philip D. Reed, called for U.S. support for a U.S.E. Their declaration, assembled by handsome, black-haired, internationalist Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (son of an Austrian father and a Japanese mother), said: "The alternative ... is a Continent permanently divided . . . by an artificial and arbitrary line of barbed wire...
...ever going to keep their dates straight. The difficulty: the day starts at different hours for each of the world's 24 standard time zones; when it is after 5 p.m., March 31 in New York, it is already April 1 in Moscow. This week Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, global-thinking president of the Pan-European Union, offered a solution to the Secretary General of the United Nations. He calls it UNO-time...
Count Coudenhove-Kalergi is sure that "people would become accustomed to following in their minds the course of the sun around the world and to realizing the beginning and the end of every world day. ... (It) would serve to mark the fact that we are all living in one world of mutual interdependence...
Principal sponsor of last week's "Declaration of European Interdependence" was Count Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Bohemian citizen of the world turned visiting professor of history at New York University. His best-selling Crusade for Pan-Europe (TIME, Nov. 29, 1943) vividly diagnosed the "incurable disease" of nationalism, advocated a United States of Europe as the best palliative...
...whatever one may think of Coudenhove-Kalergi's ideas, the opening chapters make Crusade for Pan-Europe one of the best autobiographies in years...