‘Will today’s Europe of the Six soon become a Europe of the Ten, or a still bigger Europe stretching out over other countries so closely connected to us by their culture, by their way of life, that it cannot be imagined that they are not a part of our Community? […] In their eyes, is patriotism at all compatible with the picture they have of Europe? They should not worry. The patriot who here stands before you is quite another patriot than the patriots of old. Without my love for France would I have had the right at all to be filled with enthusiasm—as I have been and am filled with enthusiasm—for the German way of life, for the German soul? Would it then be at all possible for me tomorrow to speak about Germany, to interpret Germany, to comment on her misfortune and her recovery, her pangs of conscience and her liberalism, to present her successive Chancellors, especially the one who today in diplomatic talks of unprecedent unyieldingness […] is endeavouring to reintroduce the sense of humanity? A man must love his own country in order to fathom his neighbouring country, to understand it, to feel for it, and in his turn to love it. Europeans will be the motherland of those who love their motherlands.’