The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.

It seems to be working because we sold the series to France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan and Korea.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.