Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Europe were to 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...
...autobiography of a man and a movement," Count Coudenhove-Kalergi tells about the effect of Woodrow Wilson's oratory on liberal inhabitants of the old Austro-Hungarian empire. The Count was all for Wilson, but Versailles soon disillusioned him. Where Coudenhove-Kalergi had hoped for a united Europe in 1919, he soon discovered that every little language was getting a country...
During the interlude between the two world wars, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi spent his time traveling about Europe organizing Pan-European units. For a time things looked propitious. But the depression and the sudden rise of Hitlerian National Socialism in Germany wrote finis to the Count's hopes. Throughout the '30s the Pan-European Union fought a rearguard action, trying to rally good nationalists to a program that would result in an effective encirclement of Hitler...
Federation or Force. Eventually Count Coudenhove-Kalergi would like to see a federated world. Lacking that, he hopes the U.S. will preserve the peace by keeping a preponderant air force in being to supplement the work of the British Navy. As for Europe, he does not despair of federalizing it after the war is over. He would have the European federal units accept a common Bill of Rights, and elect members of a European House of Representatives on a population basis. The European Senate would consist of the prime ministers and foreign ministers of the various countries. Together...