English Translation

While quite a large number of 18u Übceinsti m ing are likely to prevail in Czech circles, we are by no means at all unaware of the fact that the illusions of the West are still flourishing in certain circles. However, they are, although sociologically explanatory, no less dangerous. Belief in the Anglo-Saxon West is the shadow of the 19th century. In the early 20th century, the highlight of British excellence, still floats on the continent. Delighted spirits like Goethe have already looked at the power-political background of the British position at the beginning of his century. To this day, little exaggeration has not yet come to the conclusion that the buzzwords of free trade, the dignity of the individual, the rights of the small nations, are cben catchwords, which have lost all meaning in the face of today's totally changed social reality. In addition, this applies to the, USA. Nowhere is individual opinion, personal judgment, taste, perception less valid than where standartized norm and fashion, even in this area, rolls down everything. Giselher Wirsing has developed in his excellent American book "The Excessive Continent" with appalling clarity the disproportion between the "American myth" and the American reality of today. The "American myth" is nothing other than that of the sociological starting position of the USA. At the end of the 18th century corresponding, clarified individual social virtues. There, however, has occurred a. fundamental change. The suddenly asserting limitation of the previously seemingly boundless space (approachable in the fixation of immigration quotas), the highly capitalist economic development, that of all monroedoctrin in spite of ever denser world-political interdependence, have created problems that cannot even be covered up with the phrases of the 19th century. The New Deal has failed according to the verdict of all experts and has made room for a reconciliation between Roosevelt and big business, which, like in World War II, politically steers the US solely towards the rate of profit. That heart-boosting of a dollar diplomat, which the Minister of Foreign Affairs was citing on the anniversary of the Three Powers Pact, should also be meditated very seriously in this country. Here, the present war was described as the never-recurring opportunity to free the American export industry from European competition on the world markets. Under the pretext of military warfare, the European industries and port cities had to be thoroughly smashed by bomb attacks, thereby eliminating their competition from the longest point of view. Thus, the unemployment and social difficulties that America would face at the end of the war would also be best eliminated. Here, the veil of phrases is torn apart with a brutality. Moreover, this is not a future music. Where Anglo-Saxon capitalism has already been able to break into Europe, it already rules after such a fundamental orientation. Is it not clear from the English magazine "Cavalcade" to hear the following criticism of the "Amgot" (the office entrusted with the civil administration of the occupied Italy, which has now changed names, but by no means method): "The Amgot seems to exist only for the purpose of firmly installing allied capital interests in the conquered territories. Large-scale capital is already strongly represented in Amgot, which means that