English Translation

69 - 12 - S The same holds true for today. A determined foreign policy and firmness in the pursuit of national interests - against the aspirations of other nations, to the extent that they affect them, even if they are the ambitions of allied powers, is today just as urgently necessary as it has been and will always be. I The United States is currently mainly concerned with the prospects of long-term investments, most of which are in South Africa and then in China. Europe and North Africa are only in third place. The result can be an Anglo-American rivalry in Europe. But that does not imply that a conflict is inevitable.United Kingdom U and the United States are both interested in the economic development of Europe, especially of the area between the Baltic Sea and the Aegean Sea, which is economically still almost unlimited.In the political field, the American influence in Europe is now more useful than the British, because Americans are always striving to support the political forces that want to create some stability, while the British are trying to introduce a kind of revolutionary democracy without thinking about the consequences or the exact meaning of this concept, thereby promoting instability and disintegration rather than 'remaining'. a The United States seems to be much less interested in France or even Western Europe than it used to be. They are interested in Europe as a whole, and especially in Eastern and Southern Europe more than before.