by Sir Walter Layton which I think has been freely published on your side,   
as well as in Coudenhove-Kalergi' s latest book, and also in one of the   
chapters in my little book "The Framework of the Future" which I sent you   
                       some time ago.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
There is, however, one aspect of the matter which may confront   
us whether we like it or not. Judging from what is happening in the Balkans,  
 I think also in Italy, and probably, when the time comes, in Germany and   
in her satellites, there is very little immediate vitality or energy in   
the Democratic Parties as compared with the enthusiasm and ruthless   
aggressiveness of the Communist parties, who , will certainly not miss the   
opportunity afforded by the breakdown of Germany in order to seize power   
at the critical moment. In this they may be helped by the very fact that   
there is no real essential difference between Fascism, Nazism and   
Communism in that the kind of young men who have  
been ardent Nazis or Fascists may many of them easily become ardent   
Communists. We may therefore have to face the possibility of a preliminary   
stage of widespread Communism, or something near it, followed no doubt in   
time by a reaction towards more moderate and democratic policies.   
Meanwhile both the movement towards the Extreme Left and the subsequent   
reaction may all help to tone down the extreme Nationalism which has   
broken up Europe and in that way ease the path towards European   
                      reconstruction.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
One thing, as I said in my letter of February of last year, that   
it is really important for you to realise, is that economic policy in   
these matters connor be divorced from the political objective. If there is   
to be any form of European Union it cannot be on the basis of maintaining   
the most favoured Nation Clause, but only on the assumption that the   
European nations, like those of the British Empire, are entitled to give   
each other whatever special economic terms they wish in order to promote   
and encourage their Union, and that that cannot be any ground for   
complaint by any nation outside. I will go even further in expressing my   
strong personal views that the present economic outlook your Government   
bears very little relation to the economic trend in the world as a whole   
and looks much more, as seen from this end, like an atempt to restore   
nineteenth century individualist economics in a world which has inevitably   
become nationalist, even though the process is to some extent concealed   
from American eyes by the immense development of the United States behind   
a nationalist economic policy in the past. it may well be in the interest   
                     of   the United...