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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY-5, 1989.
COUNT WANTS WAY PAVED FOR A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE
London, June 22.
Members of Parliament are to be addressed to- night by a citizen of the world who believes that the present prolonged European crisis will have passed away by 1941 without open war, and that then the time will be ripe to start a new chapter in the history of Europe Federation.
He is Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomatist and a Ja- panese mother.
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Ever since his childhood, to use his own words, he has "interested himself in questions which trans- cend all differences of civilisation and race and move men and humanity.”
In 1923 he founded the "Pan- Europe Union," which advocated the creation of a political and economic federation of European States with a European customs union, a federal law court, a sys- tem of mutual guarantees, and a general military alliance with a federal air. force. It was he who provided much of the inspiration for the "United States of Europe" plan which Briand put forward in 1930,
"Europe is divided into 34 large or small national States,” said Count Coudenhove-Kalergi to the "News Chronicle" yesterday, "and unless it arrives at some kind of federal union, it is doomed: We are living in a sort of war period now, but that is just the time when we should be preparing the peace of to-morrow.”
RUSSIA AND AMERICA Count Coudenhove-Kalergi be- lieves that the main thing at the moment is to concentrate on fed-
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eration for Europe only, and not try to include, the Soviet Union or America. ›
"If those countries were inside a new federation," he said, "the western part of Europe would come under American influence and the eastern under Russian, and Europe would be torn into ideological pieces. It is better that a Euro- pean Federation should first be created, and should co-operate on friendly terms with the American
and Russian systems.
"Great Britain and France should take the leading part in starting and shaping the Federation, not by force of arms, but by, the strength of their faith in freedom. I believe that in time Germany and Italy would enter such a Federation.
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London, June 22..
Britons who are to be honoured with invitations to attend the Nazi Party anniversary celebrations at Berchtesgaden in August as guests of Herr. Hitler must be "sympathetic" to the cause of Greater Germany. And so Nazi envoys are now busily engaged in sounding some 20 people who have signified their willingess to attend.
If they are found satisfactory, invitations will be posted shortly. But not unless
PEER'S WIFE EXPECTS AN INVITATION
Their names are as yet unknown, but last night Lady Dunedin, after she had just flown back from a visit to Baden-Baden, told. the "Daily Sketch" that she was expecting an official invitation.
Wife of the 90-year-old peer, Lady Dunedin, who is 53, confessed she was a great admirer of the Fuehrer, but not Nazi.
"I was staying with friends in Germany when I was approached," she said, "and I said 'Yes, certainly. I'd love to meet Herr Hitler. speak fluent German and it should be a tremendous experience."
LORD HALIFAX NEXT PREMIER? JUSTIFIED BY SITUATION
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London, To-day.. Notwithstanding semi-official denials that any changes in the composition of the Cabinet are contemplated at an early date, the "Manches- ter Guardian" returns to this question. paper's Political Correspondent sees in a lead- ing article in Monday's "Daily Telegraph" proof that the objections formerly raised by the majority of the Conservative Party against Mr. Winston Churchill's inclusion, in the Cab- inet have now vanished.
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would seem, however according to the "Man- chester Guardian's" Political Correspondent that resistance is still being offered by Mr. Neville Chamberlain and other leading mem- bers of the Government.
The correspondent, finds, this re- sistance understandable, since Mr. Churchill's restless energy and im mense capacity for work would
great majority of the German peo- ple back Hitler because they are afraid of something worse. Bol shevism, national humillation, un-assure him of a predominent influ- employment, inflation. They preference in the Cabinet. Hitler to no clear alternative.
The correspondent goes on to re- fer to the possibility of Mr. Cham- “If Great Britain and France pubberlain's resigning If Mr. Churchill ̈`* lished a constructive programme of entered the Cabinet and says that - European policy, based on respect it is the consensus that Lord Hall- for the rights of all men and na-
tions and the equality of religious his only, possible successor.
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and racial minorities and opening dian's" correspondent's opinion, a up to Germany greater economle sign of the extreme gravity of the opportunities than she could obtain situation that nobody would ap- by conquest, I believe that in time parently take exception to the ap- Germany could be weaned away pointment of a "Peer Premier." from: Nazism, '
"The German and Italian people must be considered our follow- countrymen of to-morrow and offered a clear, and attractive al ternative to totalitarianism..
“I do not think that in the build of a European Federation we can make amentariem a condition
BLACK SHEEP TO RETURN?
The correspondent says, that Lord Halifax is reported to be more sympathetic than the present Prime Minister to Mr. Churchill, so that the prospect of useful co- operation between Lord Halifax and Mr. Churchill is favourable
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