English Translation

- 2 - an anti-British colour (which certain American groups with numerous connections to Europe want to increase in their own un-American interest) The intellectual insularity of England goes deeper than the acknowledged ignorance of the American isolationists, who have too much of the European continent. Resistance to Unity There is a tradition of spiritual unity in Europe that comes from Rome. But whenever, within the last three centuries, a nation or dynasty tried to restore this unity by establishing its own supremacy in Western Christendom, it met with the conscious and tough resistance of England, and by destroying this threat of its own freedom and independence, England won about half of all white-inhabited areas outside Europe for its language, culture and tradition. If Philip had won the second of Spain, no English-speaking communities would have been created in America. If the Bourbons had gained the upper hand, then perhaps New England and Virginia would be inferior to the colonies of Quebec and Louisiana, just as Neu-Amsterdam was subordinated to the English colonies. But around 1806 Britain's naval superiority was so crucial that the United States did not have to consider how Napoleon's rule would affect its own further development. In this century, the German threat has shifted our border to the Rhine and the border of America to Dover: there are times when honest Isölationists have to overcome their libered (and probably founded) dislikes. Europe has never been able to form a free unity: even at the time of the Turkish conquests, it seemed to demand t o t ot the strongest. At times, European cooperation can be brought about by the agreement of the great powers, if they exercise a moderate control.