UNITED EUROPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 164, 14 July 1930, Page 18

UNITED EUROPE.

ITS FTJTFEE SAFETY. COUNT COUDENHO VE-KALERGI'S . DREAM. At a lecture on Pan-Europe, given under the auspices of the Budapest Cobden Society, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi said that the only way in which Europe can secure peaceful co-operation with America is by retaining its fVlace in the scale of world power. And Europe can only compete with America by following its example and creating large interior markets which would make hi»rl" wages and low prices possible. PanEurope would mean the economical unity of 300,000,000 persons, and is the only means by .which agriculture in Europe can be saved, as a Pan-Europe would be supplied Avith wheat by the eastern European countries instead, of importing it from America and Australia.

In Count Coudenhove-Kalergi's opinion the aeroplane must bring about the unity of Europe, as the railway trains brought about the unity of Germany. Customs frontiers cannot be drawn in the air. In 1900 the technique will be so developed that nations may be wiped out in a day; therefore war will not be thought of. Pan-Europe is a safeguard against Bolshevism, but if it is not peacefully evolved the Third International will attempt to unite Europe by means of revolution.

Count Coudenhove-Kalergi emphasises the error of the idea that a great Europe would mean the loss of individual national characteristics; it would mean merely that the less progressive States would attain the level of European culture, and that Europe would, retain its own soul, and not acquire an American soul.