"Europe yesterday was a battlefield. Europe today is an anachronism. Europe tomorrow will be a federation."
With this slogan-battle-cry able Balkan Publicist Richard Kouden-hove-Kalergi, by maternal strain a Japanese, by paternal inheritance a count of Austria, has been seeking for some five years to assemble a congress of Pan-Europeans.
His vision materialized at Vienna last week when France, Belgium, Austria and Finland sent official representatives to discuss Pan-Europeanism with the unofficial representatives of 22 other nations Germany being represented by onetime (1921-22) Chancellor Karl Joseph Wirth.
After two days of amicable discussion...