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Page 55 - Europe the following alternative: "either to overcome all national hostilities and consolidate in "a federal union, or sooner or later to succumb to a Russian "conquest.
Page vii - Scattered as the states are from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico...
Page xvi - ... To a politician, in inverse proportion to his power of imagination, the realm of utopia seems greater and the realm of possibility smaller. World history has more imagination than the puppets who make it; and it is compounded of unending surprises — of utopias come true. Whether an idea remains a utopia or becomes a reality usually depends upon the number and the energy of its supporters. While thousands believe in Pan-Europe, it is a utopia; so long as millions believe in it, it is a program...
Page viii - Surgery is the official publication of orthopaedic surgeons of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the United States of America...
Page v - Empire, the British Commonwealth of Nations and the United States of America which the Declaration of Independence called into being.
Page 89 - The Geneva League of Nations is inorganic; instead of organically grouping the peoples and states of the world according to their economic, cultural, and geographical affinities, it joins together mechanically, like bricks, large and small states, Asiatic and European, neighboring and distant, without regard to geography, history, culture, or economics.
Page 94 - If world organization is to take the place of world anarchy, then the first step must be for the states to form themselves into super-states. Just as the successive unifications of Germany, Italy, and Poland were necessary stages on the road to a united Europe, so the unification of Europe will be a necessary stage on the road to a united humanity.
Page 92 - Against the exercise of such tutelage by the League of Nations, Europe must sternly set itself. It must recognise what is undignified in its own international position, and voice its claim to independence and self-determination. It should leave all decisions concerning inter-continental questions to the League of Nations, while taking into its own hands the solution of purely European problems. A hundred years later than America, Europe must proclaim to the world its own Monroe Doctrine : ' Europe...
Page xii - The cause of Europe's decline is political, not biological. Europe is not dying of old age, but because its inhabitants are killing and destroying one another with the instruments of modern science. As regards quality, Europe is still the most productive human reservoir in the world. The aspiring Americans are Europeans transplanted into another political environment. The peoples of Europe are not senile; it is only their political system that is senile.
Page 41 - Russia but not include them as constituent members, on the ground that both of the States are only loosely connected with the contineut. Politically, Great Britain is a continent apart and is a World Power of five continents. It is neither European, nor Asiatic, nor African, nor Australian, nor American— just British. This continent is held together, not by geographical links, but by the common language and culture of its dominant nation and the astute statesmanship of its rulers. It is a World...