A POLITICAL DREAM.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17544, 28 August 1922, Page 7

A POLITICAL DREAM.

CREATION OF A WORLD NATION. (By Cable—Press Aasociation—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received August 27th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 26. Mr Phillip Kerr, secretary to Mr Lloyd George, addressing the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, said:—The British Commonwealth cannot last indefinitely in its present form. It will be replaced by greater things if the world is to progress towards unity and peace. Somebody has suggested that I wish the United States would join the British Commonwealth. I do not, for if it did a nation of 110 millions would simply 6Wallow one of 40 millions. The great national cultures of France, Italy, Great Britain, the United States. Germany, Russia, and Japan differ profoundly. You cannot get them to merge their national identities in a vague cosmopolitan patriotism. There is no possibility, and there ought not to be, of creating a world nation on the model of any national State now existing. The Federal Government and 'Congress, under the American system, can give no orders to an individual State, as each is independent in its own sphere. Here, it seems to me, is the key of the whole problem.