INTERNATIONALISM

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20836, 21 April 1933, Page 10

INTERNATIONALISM

ITS WEAKNESSES , I EXAMINED. LECTURE BY MR L. C. WEBB, g "The central problem in the world | to-day is that of fitting the nation | ; state into a system of world govern- I. ment* said Mr L. at Can- I; terbury College last night, in the | second of a series of lectures <a |: modern political problerna."« ■* § a race against time. BtoMJ I nation state will accommodate «** | to the new order or it will be WJ | in another such catastrophe »\* | Great War. The Russians bjjw I that the destructive pi***"" I evitable; and their constitution * | ; visages the Soviet Union «1J I nucleus of a new world orders m | on the class war. I am .«*» j of a liberal to hope, andlbuWJ 1 of an optimist to believe, thatjg | government can be ptt«jj I created on non-Marxian pnWPj | , Mr Webb went on to stete «J I the "internationalism' of OBW | war period was not a B«uH»« I the problem under 'conadgj j The word stressed the interdepsj* I ence of nations; but it also stog I the fact of nationality. 1 law was a recognition of tne«* | for rules of conduct WW? ■ nations; but it also brought into "J I lief the unfettered sovereign? | the nation state. The LeajeJ | Nations, as an international m* M sation, gave practical, expHW 1 the need for regularising: ft* JJ || tions between states; but tbeWP |f had also done much to wswr |», tional feeling by giving fflMj'Jfc | full opportunities for ajnng , m grievances. It was afnjjfjj* 1 the claims of most °* th * I J SS»|| Dominions to full national W | were based usually on their w*> | bership of the league. | Just as the relations | dividuals could be quately only by a superior ity, so the relations betweenJflg | ments could be controlled » I quately only by t ' 1 ment. The ideal of woild tf» g ment has been best stated cyi | zini, one of the greatest of natior | ists" n 35 p"Mankind must be one, eg" , | God is one-one in «gSBeVB*I it is already one ■ indispensable that thert W » I centre to which the **&**££, | spiration of mankind nw • # ■ thenc e) to descend again in tne j of law." . w _ re xeeoß*'! Continental peoples were m ciled to the idea of * | government. Genera*Jgewg 1 Englishmen and not The disparity between | points of view could best \vt m the efforts now being "gggr** vent war. The KeUogg Mg | outlawry of war wasa .t**. j of the Anglo-Saxon 1 the problem. Its 'Swourfe* 1 sumption was that ff 1 tinue to menace ** I humanity realised Mj ,g j and renounced **• JSary. f § either useless or uwgfj &&& | Frenchman f g u f£ H n p infoi>*s I that although Jgte f forbade murder, th^"jpe# I do away with policemen | ties for murder. lity £ f • "The outlawry rfw^^Jj prevention of %?&% '«War< 1 relative," said I ■ always occur, just as n g **J | always occur. The.aim government and «I gressive warfare r&* £ r is& Jl fble, just asmu* lS aie | punishable. Sanction J