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88 it ceases to be a menace to their independence. Attracted by the affinities of language and race, of religion and tradition, the Slav communities will constitute one integral whole, the United States of Eastern and Southern Europe.

That federation of Slavonic States will be the dominant power in the old Continent, and the other States will have to follow their lead. The economic and political interests of the other nations will be so closely identified with the future of Russia, that they will have to seek a closer political understanding and to constitute, in combination with Russia, those United States of Europe which hitherto had been the vain political dream of generations of idealists and visionaries.