Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-31


these treaties not mere scraps of paper'-and
to hold them so is unthinkable-the United States
~ Europe is their logical outcome Anyway,
shall know about it in October of this
ear, when a Pan-European congress is to be
,aed-int@pendently of the League of Nations
out not in opposition to tin an endeavor to
freak down natonalistc divisions to bring about
economic cooperation and to promote disarma-
nent.
If Count Richard Coudenhove- Kalergi is a bit
hesty these days-lncidentally he is in the
United States at this writing and is being made
much of-he should be pardoned For he is the
mead Of the United States of Europe movement.
And what's more, a prophet seventh son
of a seventh has anything on him. Three
years ago he wrote book, "Pan-Europa" which
at the time seemed merely the utterance of
dreamer visloning an Utopia Yet the book has
come strangely true-so true in part that one
wonders If it is to come true in whole.
Why, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi even dared to
prophesy reconciliation between France and
Germany. He figured that they would come to
ealization that continued hostility meant ruin
or both; that to save themselves they would
ave to come to mutual solidarity based on
COMMON sense"
Count Coudenhove- Kaergi will not be like most
]rophets-not without honor save in his own
untry-for if ever there was a cosmopolite it
he. He certainly will be honored somewhere
is believed to hail at present from Vienna
y The Kalergis are an old Greek family of
e Count Richard was born in Tokyo of an
stran father and Japanese mother He was
dcated in Bohemia Austria and Germany He
now a citizen of CzechoslOvakia His wife is
ia Roland, Central European actress of note
urely Count Coudenhove-Kalergi should know
mething at least of European conditions needs
I'd tendencies.
To show how close to the true inwardness
things Count Richard came three years ago,
IRE are some of the things he said then in
Pan-EurOpa":
Whereas the 4S republics of North America are
united politically and economically in single
union, the rs democracies of Europe are under
mining their political and economic sovereignty
and by means of their policy in peace and war,
are Systematically destroying each other.
me United States Of America is the richest, most
powerful ana most highly developed country in the
world Her citizens are not liable to universal
military service. Upon her territory has
been fought for over half century. Industry and
agriculture prosper there and American material
and intellectual culture grows from year to year.
The European problem will never be solved until
the nations of Europe join together This union
viii occur either voluntarily by the creation of
Pan-European federation, it will be forced upon
Europe as a result of conquest of western Eu-
Whether not the European problem is solved
by Europe herself by Russia, fact remains:
the present European system Of small nations can
not maintain itself permanently in the face of the
four great declarations of the future; the British.
Russian American and East Asian
Instead of combining the peoples and countries
Of the world according to their historical,
nomc, cultural and geographical relationships, the
League of Nations without consideration for geog-
raphy history, culture or economies puts together
mechanically like many bricks, big and little,
Asiatic and European, neghboring and remote,
nations.
Europe's world hegemony is irrevocably lost;
her independence, however, is not yet lost,
her colonial empire. her culture and her future.
If Europe would but form union while there
yet time. she might yet participate in the divi-
sion of the earth the fifth big factor, enjoying
lights equal to those of the other four but if she
emains cut into small pieces, she needs
sink deeper and deeper into political powerless-
ness until son1e day, having fallen into bank
ruptcy, misery and debt, she falls a prey to
Russian onslaught.
Europe 700 years after America, must proclaim