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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...
Perhaps the best part of the book is the hurried but interesting discussion of what might be called administrative phases of international organization. The Coudenove-Kalergi theory of continental internationalism is utterly demolished, but a sensible functional devolution of international activity is proposed to take its place. Emphasis is justly laid on the atmosphere of technical cooperation as a surer route to internationalism than the pathway of political ideas. The need for international force is sanely handled; a modified method of representation of small nations in the League Assembly is proposed. If one views the present era of economic nationalism...