progress which individual nations pessess can only produce beneficial   
results if it is restricted to the sphere of peaceful competition;   
otherwise it will only tend to render the solution of each nation's   
oblems more difficult in view of the problems ef ether natio
 
                                                            
 
 
When Europe speaks of vital space as a fact or aspiration based  
on close economic relations, or of the existence or creation of ecenomic   
systems which nearness in place or natural aptitudes render clearly   
complementary, she may be advancing towards the gradual rationalization of   
economic interests; but if she proceeds to monopolize markets, as a   
stepping-stone te political domination, she is embodying in that idea a   
principle of war and must expect strong barriers to be raised against any   
                     such development.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
So long as groups of emigrants work in a fereign country, to  
whose economic life and hospitality they have turned in their need,. no   
one will complain if they receive the protection of their native country;   
but if Eurepe proclaims the principle that these groups represent a   
prolongation or affirmation of foreign sovereignty, in real enclaves, it   
will at once be ebjected that this attitude implies a beginning of   
political invasion, and the disposal of excess pepulation will be  
               confronted with new obstacles.               
 
                                                            
 
 
When Europe allews it te be understood that there are political regimes   
which are essentially aggressive and other regimes endowed with an   
evangelical meekness and respect for the rights of others, she not only   
commits a mistake loudly challenged by the facts~ but she encourages the   
artificial creation of political groups in the various States and raises   
internal problems which go far to prevent a better understanding; and when   
she demands or concedes rights of citizenship for party erganizations   
whose directers or leaders reside in a foreign country and oposses   
independent national existence, she is undermining the strength of those   
y States to whese support she looks in her work to secure pe
 
                                                            
 
 
My only fear is this: that Europe, unable to solve any of her problems by   
a war in Eurepe, may be equally unable to erganize a Eurepean peace; may,   
in seeking to progress and to live, herself sow the fatal seeds of ruin   
and of death. And this would be indeed a tragedy, for with the decline of   
         Europe the whole world must be diminished.         
 
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