THE NATIONS: Europe Firsters

"Let's keep out of America's and Russia's quarrels!"

More & more Europeans are saying that these days. It might come as a shock to onetime isolationists in Osakis, Minn, and Kokomo, Ind. to hear such close approximations from the Continent of their 1915 and 1940 arguments.

Most intelligent Europeans know quite well that they could not stand aside in event of a Russian-U. S. struggle, but they have suffered so much that fear overcomes reason. Unlike the U.S.'s old isolationism, the new European brand does not spring from a sense of security, but from an overwhelming knowledge of insecurity. Britain's R....

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