Goodness gracious me! It echoes the “nationalist and (neo)fascist right” does it? We certainly can’t have that, can we?
Here’s an interesting passage I came across recently:
“For many centuries past Europe has been torn by the wars of its peoples. Actually there have never been any long periods of peace on our Continent. An unfortunate policy of coalitions resulted in the European peoples taking up arms against one another and mutually slaughtering the flower of their youth at frequent intervals. An end must be put to that now and an end can be put to it.
Europe is no longer today the uncontested centre of world power as it was a century ago. Vast power complexes have developed outside Europe in Russia, in the United States and also in Asia. Were the peoples of Europe to continue annihilating one another, they would in turn finally fall an easy prey to these powers outside Europe. Until now there has not been any real opportunity to put an end to these internal European wars because the destiny of whole continents outside of Europe also depended upon their outcome. Today the situation is simply that either Europe unites in combating these extra-European power complexes or that it is gradually undermined country by country and destroyed by them. “Hereditary enmities” dating from former centuries cannot and must not be of any importance in view of this world situation.
In former epochs nobody would have believed that a time would come in which one town would no longer fight against another and one small principality against another. It did nevertheless come about on the formation of the various national states in Europe. Today we are faced by the necessity of reaching the next stage, that of the unification of Europe.”
Anybody recognise the source of the above? I’ll provide the answer in a later post …