„to fuse British, French and German interests into a European Confederation on the initiative of Great Britain, in order to create a community of interests and co-operation, beneficent to all parties. Under these circumstances … I deferentially appeal to your immense authority and responsibility to suggest that the British government – in accordance with the method of federalisation in America, South Africa and Australia – invite every European State to choose ten representatives to a congress charged with the task of preparing a constitution for an empire of European nations, to be submitted to a plebiscite in each country for acceptance or rejection.”
Laughland resümiert über das Schicksal dieser obskuren historischen Figur und seiner Ideen:
„Quisling died before his ideas could come to fruition. Being on the losing side of history, his career did not culminate in him becoming a European commissioner or the chairman of a UN committee. Instead he fell under a hail of bullets on 24 October 1945 in the same Akerhus Fortress in which he had sat a Minister-President of Norway. But the idea to which Quisling gave his name – that it is better to collaborate than to sit carping on the sidelines – has had a better fate.”
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