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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 16, 1984
national Pan-European Movement. He travels widely and lectures frequently.
On September 25, he was in Pennsylvania, delivering addresses at York Col
lege of Pennsylvania and Elizabethtown College. Mr. Jim Rosenthal, pastor
of our Harrisburg church, attended the afternoon lecture at York College,
and church member Herbert N. Witmer attended the evening session at
Elizabethtown. They were kind enough to send us newspaper reports of the
speeches as well as, in Mr. Witmer's case, a transcript of an enlightening
question-and-answer session.
First off we have a summation of Archduke Karl's York College address as
presented in the September 26 issue of THE PATRIOT of Harrisburg. One can
readily see that he is a "chip off the old block." Not only his message but
his very words are virtually identical to his father's.
A "United States of Europe" could be the world's third great
power, an Austrian archduke said yesterday during a visit here.
Archduke Karl von Habsburg, youngest board member of the Inter
national Pan-European Movement and an officer in the Austrian
army, spoke at York College of Pennsylvania on efforts to form a
combined Europe. "Today, 200 million Americans are protecting
470 million Europeans from 250 million Russians," he said. "Com
bined, we could do it ourselves."
Habsburg, grandson of Emperor Karl I of Austria-Hungary and son
of Otto von Habsburg, a member of the European Parliament, said
he grew up in a family where European politics was the main topic
of conversation. "From the time_! was� little boy_! heard only
about politics, and I have been active in politics since the age
of 12," he said. The Pan-European Movement began in 1923, was
stalled by World War II, and had a revival in the early 1950s with
a plan to integrate the coal and steel industries of Western
Europe, Habsburg said. This led to the European Economic Com
munity••• �nd] to the European Parliament••..
The next few years �aid the Archduke] will see the introduction
of a European passport, a European driver's license, a uniform
voting system, common guidelines for protection of the environ
ment and the use of energy and other natural resources, the coor
dination of school certificates and educational degrees, and a
common system of armaments, he said..••
"We seek a great Europe, and people now living behind the Iron
Curtain are just as much Europeans as we are.
Colonization
should end in Europe, just as it has in Africa and other parts of
the world."
As his father concluded in his addresses at Ambassador College and in Los
Angeles last year, Archduke Karl also stressed, regarding the quest of a
united Europe: "We have passed the point of no return."
After the hour-long presentation in Elizabethtown, Archduke Karl fielded
questions from the general audience (about 250 people of all ages). After
wards, according to Mr. Witmer, the Archduke remained to answer questions
privately from a dozen or so persons. The following are some of the ques
tions Mr. Witmer and others asked of the very outspoken Archduke: