The Washington times., 1925-11-24
JEAN ELIOT's. GOSSIP OF SOCIETY
VISITOR WILL
TELL OF
PLAN
Count Coudenhore-K aler-
gi Would Remake World
Nearer Hearts Desire

HINDER the wing Of such notables
u as Judge William Hitz and Nor
man Hapgood, Count Richard Cou-
denhove-Kalergi, a recent visitor in
washington, will play a return en-
gagement" shortly and will be given
an opportunity to meet number
of influential men and women anu
to tell something of his Scheme
for World Reorganization" as pre-
sented i'm a memorial to the League
of Nations. That sounds like q
large order, but from what have
been told and from hasty reading
of the memorial, printed in the Re
view OF Reviews in September, 1925,
1t seems to have the merit of prac-
ticability. Certainly the plan is
presented in the most lucid and
beautiful English and Is distin-
guished by clearness of thought and
q wide range of vision--whether or
not one agrees with the conclusions.
When he comes to washington
next week Count Kalergi is to pc
accompanied by Countess Kalergl,
a very charming and gifted person
who is leading lady Of the famous
Burgtheater of Vienna. / believe
they are to put up at hotel TINS
time, but when they were mere re-
Gently they werel guests OF Judge
and Mrs. William Hitz. Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman TIapgood are having
a small tea for Count and Countess
Kalergi on Friday afternoon, De.
cember A, at their new home, 1870
Twenty fourth street, into wnicn
they have just moved; and other
opportunities will be given Count
Kalergi to meet Washington Off
Gals and leading journalists In IN
formal fashion to discuss with them
what he has in mind.
A Large Order
1t is obviously impossible TO ex'
plain in q few sentences plan Tor
world reorganization. But what
Count Kalergi, who is the author
of well-known work, Pan
Europe" and who Is devotlng his
entire time to putting a Pan Euro
pean project into practical shape,
has in mind is, roughly speaking
an organization of q Pan-European
Union-on the lines OF the Pan.
American TJnion--with the rest OF
the world organized into such nat
uraI political continents" as the
British Empire, Russia, China and
Japan. etc. The theory is that
problems of strictly European --oE
Asiatic- could thus lie
worked out without bringing the
rest OF the world into the quarrel
and that system of world wide
cooperation might eventually be
evolved to deal with problems OF
world interest.
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The proposal contemplates off
cial recognition Of such existing
alliances as the British Empire
and the Pan American Union, with
explicit recognition of their auth.
ority in Their own territory. And
he feels that It would be better to
reorganize the League Of Nations
to contemplate such q scheme than
to start fresh with an Opposition
league.
Most thinkers feel that some
sort of q Pan European alliance
must come about IL Europe is to
continue existence; and it is to
this phase of his larger project
that Count Kalergi is now de
voting himself He is the originator
of the Pan-Europe movement
which has its headquarters in the
Hofburg at Vienna, the former
residence of the Hapsburg En-
perors.
The brilliant young statesman
is the son of an Austrian noble
man, who, while in the diplomatic
service of his country, married q
Japanese lady. He was educated
at the famous Theresianum Acad
envy of Vienna.