Indeed, these vocabularies have increasingly not fitted what we have been seeing since the 1950's. But that does not lessen its potency, or its danger. It harbors horrors of race hatred, ethnic exclusivity, wars of vendetta and territorial aggrandizement. Only if Britain will now move with the French through the Community will we have the kind of pressures applied to make sure that Germany acts responsibly. This is what the British did not do in the '20s or the '30s.
Peace needs to be more than just the absence of cold war.
But any map drawn up between 1945 and 1990 tells of a Europe in which only its devisors could have truly believed. It would be very surprising, and no doubt too good to be true, if Europe in 2020 turned out exactly as suggested here. But this is a time of hope, and I have started from optimistic assumptions.