ABSTRACT

The Nazis have destroyed over-aged sovereignties, hacked down ramshackle boundary-posts, and broken the neck of capitalistic enterprise and capitalistic class distinctions all over Europe. Mr. Bernard Newman, in his book on The New Europe, published in this country in 1943, draws a glowing picture of the possibilities believed to be inherent in the proposed postwar alliance between Poland and Czechoslovakia. The main industrial area of Europe, comprising the coal fields of Ruhr, the Saar and Belgium as well as the iron ore deposits of Loraine and Luxemburg, cuts across political frontiers. Dr. Benes gives expression to a creed in which most contemporary Europeans firmly believe when he further emphasizes that "nationhood," like personal freedom, is an absolute value." A United Europe incorporated into the larger Atlantic community of which it is an indispensable part, is both possible and desirable.