"Is believing in the Europe of defense not to respect the Europe of today with respect to what may one day be its defense, or even to sketch what the Europe of tomorrow could be so that it can defend itself after tomorrow? Then let us allow ourselves, 20 years later, to take back a pertinent alternation that was then valid for France; or else to put back an a priori system, to an alliance, and to lose all continental independence or else to create a proper system that would be directed against nobody but would be worldwide and all-encompassing.