Proposal towards a world system of foreign policies, severly impartal proposals and integrally inclusive

PROPOSALS TOWARDS A WORLD SYSTEM OF FOREIGN POLICIES, SEVERELY IMPARTIAL PROPOSALS AND INTEGRALLY INCLUSIVE

Mr Cuairman, Professor Soddy, General Fuller, and Representatives of the Press, Ladies and Gentlemen:

Speaking to you as I do as the Organising Secretary of the New Europe Group and chief political adviser to the Group on Continental and international affairs, | beg to convey to you that I am speaking also as belonging natively to my Jugoslav nation and my Serb people inside of it. In fact you can take it safely that the view I shall expound is essentially the cultural or spiritual view of the, let us call it, INTERMARIUM populations in the East of Europe, between Russia and the Central Europe proper, and stretching, if I do not exaggerate, from Finland—which is a semiindependent country, though precariously endangered by the might of the Communist Russia—down to irritated and uncertain Turkey far to the South. Speaking technically, and merely diplomatically, the problem is of the Balkans and the whole South Eastern Europe, with Turkey on the fringe of the belt of nations to which I referred as Intermarium, meaning between the Arctic and Baltic Seas and the Black, Aegean and Adriatic Seas.

Now my first proposal of any, merely as a matter of beginning and yet focussing the attention to the central nerve of the world and of Europe, is that in no case should the Balkans be divided or split, as is the case now both with Jugoslavia and with Greece. Not that I plead for Communism, nor for the inclusion of the whole European East into the Soviet Union system of the people’s republics and new democracies. What I propose is to the human spirit and European intelligence: with British intermediation, to induce, somehow, the formation of Eastern European Federation, Turkey joining in voluntarily together with Finland, the other nations being already in the Soviet power orbit, however unfederated and unfree.

Now I propose in all earnestness, that the United States should become, by common human agreement, the protector power guaranteeing peace, freedom and prosperity to the Pacific or