RE SOME NOTES ON NATIONALISM

I am one of those few who think it would have been much better to have kept the European Imperial System, as Michael Howard implied. 

As Kennan said of Eastern Europe, after the fall of the Austro Hungarian Empire, 1919, it had been better than anything that has come after....For me, that is very safe for Kennan to have said, even back then...

Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919, quoted Bliss, a Paris military

 
attache, re 'surfacing' nations:

 

'vicious from the moment of their birth'.