ABSTRACT
if they commit themselves to a zollverein with us and the rest of the family you won't hear much more about the need to foster communications. Communications will foster themselves'.... Lorne went on, 'but I'm afraid it's rather futile, the kind of thing we've been trying to do. It's fiddling at a superstructure without a foundation. What we want is the common interest. Common interest, common representation, domestic management of domestic affairs, and you've got a working Empire'....
