![]() One hundred years ago today the last bastion of Catholicism and patriotism was brutally torn apart by famine, revolution, and military force. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Black Banners That’s what you children have been taught to call Austria… Heaven my young man, is like Austria, the old, real Austria… One shred they held up in sheer mockery and called it Austria. I have had no country since November 1918… That was the time when Austria was literally carved into pieces. ![]() Continue reading → Abendland: A Post-Nationalist Vision of Europe Though exempt from service due to his studies at the Theresianum, his first hand experience of the horrors of the first “ European Civil War,” and the growing menace of Soviet Russia convinced him of the necessity of Pan-European federal state, one capable of standing militarily and economically against Bolshevism. Richard was raised in Ronsperg, in the Austrian Crownland of Bohemia, the second eldest of seven children, and was destined to follow his father into the diplomatic service. The Coudenhove family were Flemish nobles who inherited the patrimony of the Greco-Venetian Kallegris, and Aoyama was the daughter of a moderately wealthy Japanese commoner. Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi, one of the most influential and mischaracterized founders of the Pan-European Movement, was born in Tokyo in 1894, the first son of the Austrian-Hungarian Ambassador Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi and Mitsuko Maria Aoyama, a Japanese convert to Catholicism. ![]() Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, The Totalitarian State Against Man. Where there is freedom it is not arbitrariness which prevails, but inner law… Whoever confuses freedom and arbitrariness soon loses freedom, which he neither deserves nor can carry. The inner meaning of freedom is not freedom to produce anarchy or chaos, but freedom to develop according to form. ![]()
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