Can Europe Be United?
Sforza, Carlo
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By CARLO SFORZA
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be, in part, an idealist's dream. But it proposes a...
...in 1791, the barriers which, under the ancien regime...
...the wise democratic rule of Giolitti had reached one...
...agriculturally rich as she has always been, became an...
...ensured a wider market to the agriculturists of the...
...Those who do not see this trend remind me of the...
...ful beginnings of an organic widening of the economic...
...have the selfish aim of rationalizing production, of se...
...tities mean, on the map of Europe, some five thou...
...It would be too easy to belittle the...
...ment bench with these words: "No matter if the two...
...less Utopian, when one thinks of our deep differences of...
...furore, generally—of the present dictatorships simply...
...ought to have sufficed to show us, in Europe, the way...
...The signs are already visible for those who can see...
...meaning...
...now for Europe: and so much the better, after all, if...
...sooner or later, out of sheer necessity...
...Herein lies...
...It is true that...
...tion of a united Europe...
...it might seem at first sight...
...Distant as the likelihood may seem today, the union...
...1929, between a map of...
...pressed them...
...TO JUDGE the difficul...
...lems of the day...
...fated necessity also by the masses who—in spite of the...
...will mean much more than a lot of optimistic, Utopian...
...between a political year...
...frontiers, with increasing tariffs on each side...
...Thus it has always been in...
...inspired by plain necessities...
...tween France, Germany and small adjoining countries...
...Dic...
...It would be a great mistake to suppose that dictator...
...ties, we have thirty-six customs systems and twenty...
...paper in the morning with their cafe au lait will no...
...Vienna that their remedy is not Germany but Europe...
...boundaries of the Versailles...
...themselves concerned—have...
...they have...
...war, agreements begin to take place that one might...
...quoted—in some more or less near future—as the...
...and in this restricted meaning of economic...
...cord and economic collaboration: indeed, the so-called...
...On the Flanders and Carso fronts between 1914 and...
...Before her Zollverein, Germany was a poor provin...
...In Europe we are not as blind as our present break...
...that the idealistic tendency for an organic reconstruc...
...tion of Europe, one has...
...Germany, which provokes in France so many fears and...
...Though concerned with im...
...tries between which peace, real peace, would mean...
...the coordination of produc...
...this, under the guise...
...that abnormal atmosphere between them and their...
...In the following paper...
...Besides, why judge Europe on its dictatorial...
...In point of fact, in...
...the countries ruled by dictatorships...
...to be the slaves of artificial situations) give the proof...
...of her own free will that she has eventually accepted...
...for the employers...
...everywhere...
...to believe, to the folly of those ways which we seem...
...thing by the way, I had tried to do in 1921, when I...
...And when he sym...
...everywhere the true lesson of the war: that war is...
...statesman and as a student of world affairs to make a case...
...great industrial magnates, who for years have dictated...
...atmosphere was on the point of lightening, gave the im...
...they hope to reach them, or the most noisy and least...
...to prove that, here and there and everywhere, light is...
...Briand, has felt that France would put herself in a...
...be annexed to Begium as, rather imprudently, some in...
...grasp of the meaning of history as a whole...
...In 1914 we had twenty-six customs systems and...
...Luxemburg, the...
...losing their jobs, organized popular demonstrations in...
...going on shouting, on behalf of their own personal...
...but the standard of living there was one of the most...
...the Franco-German Potash Convention, the Franco...
...knew that her prosperity depended on her economic...
...taken...
...production, organizations...
...But it is just because they are based on...
...so it happened in Germany with...
...while more or less the same phenomenon will take...
...actual difficulties, as is the case with the Anschluss...
...doxes — of the work...
...gether the different elements...
...527...
...Even among nations, and in spite of the nationalistic...
...that they have much more to gain from a common en...
...One of them, for instance, is the...
...And...
...statesmen and economic elites begin to understand that...
...of the peninsula, in 1860, gave origin to a brilliant de...
...The contrary is true, and has always been...
...that, even in countries subjected to dictatorships, the...
...Good things are always tried and begun...
...was, before the war, part of the German Zollverein...
...of the virulent oratory shouted from on high—are for...
...one likes or not this historical fatality—industrial con...
...of the League of Nations, a wider field for the eco...
...When discussing some years ago in the Italian Parli...
...publicity...
...ears are so frequently struck by the furious barking...
...by the speeches of the men in power are continually...
...and intelligent citizen...
...But hatreds of the war were still too near then...
...But it proposes a solution...
...perity since the end of the secession war, the experi...
...these morbid phenomena show, when one looks serenely...
...three or four months that separated us from the end of...
...Rhine, not to believe that I am Utopian in calmly speak...
...tions, as the only means of reaching at the same time...
...Foreign Minister, and in which I believe now as a free...
...Errors and stupi...
...and Jugoslavia instead of the policy of hatred preached...
...The slogan "United States of Europe" which be...
...I may say without indiscretion—its signification is that...
...tente...
...men and diplomats who work for their countries and...
...are not sure of their life...
...are little known, and why wonder...
...groups of two or three nations...
...simply answering a surly "No...
...quite well that one may point to the excess of hatreds...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 21
