Pan-Europe

"Europe yesterday was a battlefield. Europe today is an anachronism. Europe tomorrow will be a federation."

With this slogan-battle-cry able Balkan Publicist Richard Kouden-hove-Kalergi, by maternal strain a Japanese, by paternal inheritance a count of Austria, has been seeking for some five years to assemble a congress of Pan-Europeans.

His vision materialized at Vienna last week when France, Belgium, Austria and Finland sent official representatives to discuss Pan-Europeanism with the unofficial representatives of 22 other nations --Germany being represented by onetime (1921-22) Chancellor Karl Joseph Wirth.

After two days of amicable discussion this "First Pan-European Conference" adjourned after adopting resolutions favorable to:

1) Perpetual non-aggression among European states.

2) Harmonious participation by Great Britain and Russia in the affairs of Europe proper through the League of Nations.

3) Creation of a European system of gold reserve banks, as proposed by Frank A. Vanderlip, famed U. S. financier.

4) A hearty vote of thanks to Count Koudenhove-Kalergi for his industry in assembling such famed delegates as: Alexander Kerensky, Herr Paul Loebe (President of the German Reichstag), Chancellor Rudolf Ramek of Austria, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, onetime (1922-24) Chancellor of Austria.

During the week yet another international conference, unofficial but momentous, assembled at Romsey, in Hampshire, Eng., under the chairmanship of onetime (1921-22) Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Home. Present to discuss Anglo-German industrial problems in secretive round table fashion were some of the foremost financiers of Britain and Germany: President Evan Williams of the British Mine Owners Association; former Chancellor Cuno, Chairman of the Hamburg-American Line; Sir Hugo Hirst, Chairman of the British General Electric Co.; Dr. Sorge, a director of Krupp's.