SOMNAMBULISTIC CERTAINTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800060015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 16, 1961
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

Sept. 16, 1961
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N one form or another
the dream pen name
Saint
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,
,
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o
n does nave returned
of.' United States of Europe has . Perse, was awarded the APERMIL home with new ideas
and poets tor a long,, long time. In the ate
gr g re; wrote the first thing under the still.
fourteenth century, both Pierre Dubois, Paneuropa program), The participants have
in "1)e Recuperatione Terrae Sanctae," but before things could included Nobel Prize
and Dante Alighieri, in "De Monar- get beyond the talking winners and Cabinet
chia," put forth proposals for the puce- stage, Hider arrived on ministers, And it is not
ful unification of Europe, andcve4'iey*? the scene. Like Napo-
too much to say that
r ears thereaft
f
l
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e
er
or a coup
e
~e
nturies t, he wanted his own Alphach has livened up
someone or other came up with'a similar kind of united Eur ,
Ilan. As it Happened, all these schemes and, for a whsle, he life-or, as Molden
were torpedoed by the Refo' After the Second
puts it, "Alphach has
ramps, yet even while the Catholics an
i e , erant hoe ,pre
the Protestants were fighting it out in of sodding by the %2 tolerant .,n 11 -
the Thirty Years' War, the vision was United States, again be- hommc of the twentieth
the ll
an
i
r..n.,ot
, g
ng federal century-tnc sort of
friend of King Henri IV of France- schemes-the Coal and man who is e
uipped to
q
and not long afterward it was taken Steel Community, the take part in the build-
up h'? the Quakers in England. In Inner Six, the Outer . ing of a rejuvenated
1692
~'~'illiatn P
hi
"
,
enn wrote
s
Essay Seven, and so on. In Europe." k#L Towards the Present and Future Peace the eyes of one Euro- of Europe." and in 1 710 a leca well- A..w
w a
e
- .L_-_ -
ld
n's big Id
eve
,u-_= projects are tar too 1 ing the first years ?f
livhid "Some Reasons for an l erop- a ' eptary and timid. Alpbach. Then he full
(State." Many great men of the eight- "'He' Otto Molden, a under the spell of a h,}
ernth century considered thn,dtup from Vienna, Otto Mold" ger idea, one that had
primarily Europeans and Qdl d-, ; who gl jerally likes to
preoccupied him off and
:r'ril~? Frenchmen or End q gp concitrtttt ttr? on one big idea at a time. on since childhood-the unification of
Germans; Europe "astquieu, ,f r exar ple, . - Mddcn, a tall, darkrhaired man of Europe,. and not just of Western Eu-
c pled Europe "a state conststin of sev- forty-three, *" s-
$ with sf
penetrating eyes,-. though it was only there that a
eral provinces." Not much later,George suitably ll pleetie+-ina,tner, a ,)l,bwset f ould be made. The word "reju-
Washington predicted that one day a stride, and a deep voice, is a full-tYnq%,Ihtrtation" has not been dropped from
United States of Europe -would be political prophet, who does something' :1'blden's vocabulary, though; on the
founded. Napoleon, who had tried in about his prophecies. His career started contrary, it is on his lips a good dr.,
his fashion. to unite Europe, wrote to- when he was a boy, but his first big of the time and has come for hin, t,
ward the end of his life that Europe success did not c t1;e until the chaotic- be something of a synonym for "unified--
must be united "through ad indis oluble summer days of j945, when- Austria, tion." At any rate, since early 1955,
federative union." under the to
y~s vccupatlo7t; was cutting down on his duties At Alpbaeh,
After 1848-the year-.of revolu-? suffering fraitn'-ptoverty and hudger. he has-devoted most of his time to the
tion and counter-revolution throughout Parents were o ng fdr their children, goal of unification, travelling all over
.I-.urope-the notion of unification was and lost children were looking for` a the free part of the Continent and
'forgotten by almost everyone except place to sleep. The people needed food making more or less the same speech
:+ fuw literary men and philosophers, and clothes, but' Molden decided they to large groups, to small one.,, or simply
among them Lamartinc, Beranger, needed ideas asidintellectual ' ulation to a handful of people.
Hugo, and Nietzsche. Instead, the big as well, so he tPent'totfte: ed Ty- " file is running out fast," he said
Powers formed limited.aljiances, roost-'"- rolian village of Alpbuh ap founded recently in one such speech. "Our Dolt
ll for military purposes, which, far 'something he called the European Fo- hope of preserving European freedom
f dom bringing Europe together, tore it rum, as "a practical contributioh toward 4nd civilization is to unite Europe, fron+
a
rart in the First World
W-
-'`
-In, a rejuvenation of the intellectual life
the North Cape to Crete, from Bucha-
I
n the mid-twenties, Count Richard of Europe." forum-at program rest to Lisbon. We must create a Euro.-
Coudenhove-Kalergi, a half-Austrian, of lectures, seminars, and .roux
dsytbla ' J~an federal superstate, with a corii -..
I ff+If-Japanese writer and teacher, mo- discussions. on European science, eel- -mon P{esident, a common government,
riientarilr electrified Europe with his cure, and politics--has since been held 'k common army, a common currenct.
projected ?Paneuropa, a scheme, for. a in Alpbach for three weeks every slm- and a common Foreign policy. "rhat i