English Translation

128.) which, if it pleases it, find itself all possible reasons to enter into the internal affairs of other states, and if it does not suit it, suddenly the principle of non-inclusion into the inner affairs of a state other than a sacred and indefatigable right of nations is to be put to an end. When I consider how Europe could have developed in 1918 and how it really developed, I am embarrassed both as a politician and as a sociologist, just as the blind egoism of individual states, coupled with the lack of knowledge of things, has caused Buropas to diverge on the crooked level leading to the present disruption. It was an egoism based on the idea that a state could secure its own security by not granting any help to its threatened neighbours, over whom the crocodiles' throats were already open. In the words of Winston Churchill, this desperate endeavour to sioh the peace "at all costs" has given Hitler the method "one by one" - "one after the other", with which he has had so much success until the very moment. He has not succeeded to the end, and Europe will really save it "in extremis", but even if Hitler falls, this will not eliminate the criminal Hitlerite type from the history of humanity. New and repeated non-apprehension of the elementary necessity of solidarity and collective solidarity.