Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-08
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

and he sees not merely nations warning
above the clouds, but all nations of Eu-
rope, like the 48 States of the Western
Hemisphere, united in one great re-
public.
That does not include the British
mental Europe-that hotbed Of inter-
national wars, sometimes designated as
"the Balkans of the world"
There are so many elements Of race,
language and history, which must be
first reconciled with each other, before
Europe could unite, that the project
seems at once impossible and inconceiv-
ticability, and he IS no tyro nor Wis
ionary.
In some respects the Pan Europe
project resembles merely the Pam
American Union rather more closely
than it does the United States Republic,
although M. BRAND has spoken of it as
proposed republic putting all Europe
under one republican organization or
government. Just how it will differ In
aims and powers from the League Of
Nations is not apparent, except that its
territory will be limited to Continental
Europe and not include certain Ameri-
can nations nor those Of Asia or Africa.
Thus writes Count Coudenhove-
Kalergi:
This. development Is clearly shown
by the eVer-increaSing collaboration of
the big powers and by the many pacts,
conventions and treaties contracted and
signed by the different European states"
That may be an optimistic exagger-
alton, for when has there not been
diplomatic activity between the rival
states of Europe in arranging the bal
ancing Of powers and alliances?
The count continues:
THE activity of the League Of Ma
tons is entirely European, and the
meetings of the League of Nations be-
come gatherings Of a European parlia-
ment, through the presence of all the
foreign ministers and secretaries Of the
states of Europe"
That, on its face, seems no argument
for new Pan-European organization.
if the League of Nations already has
become just that, but the count adds:
"At the same time the conscience for
united Europe grows, the feeling for
European unification becomes q his
torical necessity, strengthened by the
conviction of q close spiritual relation
ship between the European nations and
their culture, which is threatened by
the danger Of Bolshevism on the one
side and of Americanism on the other.
The columns of all European papers
are full Of the BolSheviStic plague, as
we'll as the slavehood into which Europe
comes through the invasion OF Ameri-
can capital. Thus the union
of Europe in a political, cultural and
economical unity becomes more and
more evident"
If Europe is jealous Of the invest
ment of American capital in developing
her resources and employing her idle
and suffering labor, why does she not
raise tariff walls against American
capital? Perhaps that capital would
then find profitable investment at
home. Does it aid American prosperity
to build up formidable competition
abroad with American money?
The count further argues that Pam
Europe will not include the British EN-
pire, but that the future world will be
divided between Pan-Europe, Pan
America and the British Empire, with
all the rival nations of the continent
forgetting their ancient mutual preju-
dices and hatredS and uniting IN COM
petition with the other two units Of the
world. And now, if Prime Minister
Macdonald and President Hoover sue
coed in uniting the activities Of Amer
lea and Great Britain, it Is OF para
mount Importance that France and
Germany, Italy and Soviet Russia, Hol-
land, Belgium and the Balkans, like so
many lions and lambs, lie down to-
gether and rise up to call each other
blessed. He even remembers that Japan
should not be left out in the cold, but
should be forced to head hegemony
of the colored races against the
whites"-which proposal viii be taken
by Japan as direct insult, for she
aims to rate with Occidental civiliza-
ton rather than with the "colored
races Of the Orient" Her pride Is that
she is SO progressive she Is more Occi-
dental than Oriental
It is even amusing TO note the ease
with which some statesmen seize upon
M. Brands original idea Of Pan
Europe and enlarge it into fantastic
dividing up Of all the world, with q
security Of peace through power.
through the new globe -encircling Pax
Romano, which could assure peace until
the progress Of technique would make
war absurd and the progress of ethics
would make war impossible"
"Of such stuff as dreams are made
Of"
(cOpyyisht 1sae. hs Pazl Y. col,inas