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Article: If you sincerely want to be a United States ... ; What the New World can teach the Old about making one out of many.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 23, 1991
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What the New World can teach the Old about making one out of many
IMAGINE a hot summer in Paris. By grace of a kindly time-warp, a group of European eminences have assembled for a conference. Charles de Gaulle is their chairman. Among those attending are John Maynard Keynes (who has a continent-wide reputation, though he is still only 29) and Albert Einstein. Bertrand Russell is not there-he is holidaying on Cape Cod-but he barrages the proceedings by fax. Russell is kept abreast of things by young King juan Carlos of Spain, who, with Keynes, provides the driving force of the conference.
Impossible, except in one of those rosy early-morning dreams. Now ...