ABSTRACT
This essay was first published as a review of Henry Cord Meyer, Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1815-1945 (London, Batsford, 1956) in the Manchester Guardian (13 January 1956). Tomas Masaryk (1850-1939) was a professor of philosophy and Czech nationalist, becoming President of Czecho-slovakia, 1918-35. Karl von Bruck, the Austrian minister of commerce (1848-60), drafted in 1850 a proposal for a customs union between the Habsburg monarchy and the German Zollverein. Friedrich List was a German economist and publicist of nationalist causes.
