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Rapid unification of Europe is apparent in the econ sphere, but the European community lacks the necessary spiritual quality for unification which would be demonstrated in the merging of pol'al or cultural nat'l goals. Europe has undergone in one generation a transformation from which it has not altogether recovered. Formerly, Europe was at the center of world power. This was upset, & Europe became largely dependent on US policy & power to take over the responsibilities it could no longer meet. The 1950 decade brought European leaders to the recognition that no European nation alone was able to guarantee either its own prosperity or its own security. Only by accepting the difficult condition of dependency were European leaders able to move beyond nat'lism toward new forms of transnat'l responsibility. This eptailed the quest for merged nat'l goals & for ways of expressing them in instit's & in practices. There has been a steady growth of commitment to the European idea,& of readiness to sacrifice nat'l interests & controls in order to maintain & strengthen the European community. There is a commitment to NATO & to US leadership, but this is not as strong in France as elsewhere. De Gaulle's successes have influenced European elite opinion, &, for the period immediately ahead, the nat'l goals of European leaders appear to be diverging rather than merging. The burden of European union obviously is on the European leaders, but it must be shared intellectually, morally, & pol'ly by the US. AA.