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PRINCE ROHAN is not content to live on the reputation of a historic name: he has won himself a prominent place as a writer on political philosophy. At the beginning of his philosophical career, Prince Rohan stood for free international co-operation. But the drift of events during recent years has modified his attitude to the extent of subordinating everything to a fight against communism. In the present work, which deserves to be translated into English, Prince Rohan begins with Europe's inescapable burden laid on it by centuries of tradition. Delving into the heart of mankind, he traces its hesitations between atheism and the search for God. From all this emerges his picture of twentieth-century man—a being torn between a dozen conflicting tendencies, between Christianity, socialism, liberalism, fascism, nazism and communism. To him the threat of communism is so great that only a vigorous antidote will counter. Hence his justification of nazism and the importance of the idea of ‘race’ which permeates it. Though everyone will not agree with Prince Rohan's views, his exposition is worth attention, and few would fail to benefit from the reading of “Europe's Hour of Destiny”.
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. Von Karl Anton Prinz Rohan. Pp. 432. (Graz, Wien und Leipzig: Leykam Verlag, 1937.) 7 gold marks.
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Schicksalsstunde Europas. Nature 141, 854 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141854c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141854c0