Source: R. N.
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Europe Must Unite (Glarus: Paneuropa Editions Ltd, 1939)
pp. 139-53
Bern, September 1939
There can be no shadow of doubt that technical progress will inevitably
put an end to European dismemberment before this century has expired.
On the other hand it is quite uncertain by what method and in what form
this union will be consummated.
There are three possibilities:
the joining up of Europe and the Soviet Union as a consequence of social
revolution; or
the establishment in Central Europe of the Third Reich's hegemony, which
will then be extended over all Europe by war or the threat of war; or
a voluntary union of Europe in a league of free and equal nations.
The third solution alone conforms with the aim of the Paneuropa movement.
The movement rejects the conception that Europe must unite at any price -
even at the price of its culture and its freedom. It equally rejects extreme
pacifism, which is prepared for the sake of peace to sacrifice that culture
and that freedom. It prefers to postpone European union to a later date
rather than to see it realised in the near future under the sway of a
Bolshevist nationalist dictatorship.
