ABSTRACT
The territory in Eurasia where freedom still prevails is very small indeed. Europe itself has shrunk alarmingly since the power of Soviet Russia has reached the Elbe. Germany knows Russian Communism, knows what it means to be a Russian satellite, knows that what is at stake is the salvation of the Western civilization which has grown up on a Christian foundation. The political integration of Europe is not the special business of France and Germany. A great many people nowadays look at the process of European integration almost entirely from the military point of view and with reference to the threat from the East. The Federal Republic cannot exist without the support of other states. The Federal Republic today constitutes a border land of the Western world. The idea of neutralizing Germany may well be attractive also to a good many persons in the countries of Europe which only a few years ago were fighting Germany.
