A WORLD NATION
IMPOSSIBLE,AT PRESENT
CHANGES OF THE FUTUBE.
(UNITIB PRIBB ASSOCIATION.—CSfIIIIUT.) (iM».HMii-mw uiun emu ass<kutm*.) NEW YORK, 26th August; ; Sir Phillip Kerr (eecretarv to the. British. Prime. Afinister), 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 worict is to progress towards unity and peace. Somebody lias suggested that I wish the United States -would join the British Commonwealth. Ido not, fo» if it did a nation of 110' millions would simply swallow one of forty million^. "The great national cultures of Prance, Italy, Britain, the United Slates, 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 the individual States. Each is independent in its own sphere. Here, it eeems to me, is the key of the whole problem."
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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186A WORLD NATION Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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