period during which she must continue disarmed.  That brings me to your friend's prescription for   
the future, and there I find myself wholly in agreement with him. The only prospect to my mind of   
peace and prosperity in Europe is that Europe, west of the Ruussian border and the Russian   
economic system, should come together to form an economic unit, and not only an economic unit,   
but so far as possible a political and moral unit.  A rigid federation on American lines is not   
I think in the picture.  But something like a commonwealth of Europe, based on the principle of   
certain general European political rights both to individuals and to minorities, and on an   
acknowledgement of the common economic interests of Europe, something in fact on the lines of the  
Britisb Commonwealth, is I believe possible.  That to my mind should be the avowed policy of the   
United Nations, and they should step in, as your correspondent suggests, as receivers concerned   
with tidying up Europe in preparation for such a new start and then, to quote his words, "give up   
their membership in the West European sphere council and permit the latter to become a fully   
self-governing body".
 
     
 
 
The essential economic condition for such a regenerated Europe must be mutual cooperation   
for mutual development.  In other words the economic forces of the different European countries   
must be encouraged to sustain each other.  That means, pending the possibility, at present still   
remote, of complete inter-European free trade, at any rate of the right of the European countries   
to treat each other