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The Ruhr crisis confronted Europe with its continuing fragmentation and weakness; moreover, while after the war democracy seemed to break through everywhere in Europe, it also appeared endangered, particularly in Italy, where Mussolini’s fascists installed a totalitarian state. The spectre of war once again haunted the continent. But a lesson seemed learned, which gave way to ‘the spirit of Locarno’, the hope for a better future through European co-operation, as expressed by the German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann in 1925.
The war has taught us one thing, namely, that a common fate binds us together. If we go under, we go under together. If we wish to recover, we cannot do so in conflict with each other, but only by working together.
Gustav Stresemann, 19251
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Pasture, P. (2015). Hope and Deception. In: Imagining European Unity since 1000 AD. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480477_7
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