INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 22325, 29 April 1936, Page 9

INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

WORLD STATE IDEAL LORD AILEKDY'S VIEWS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, April 28. (Received April 29, at noon.) Speaking at his installation as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, Viscount Allen by v observed that nationalism was commonly held up to admiration as a virtue, while internationalism was branded as a crime and a sur-

render and betrayal of our own peculiar interests and rights. Until this, in his view, regrettable attitude was altered we could not hope for any enduring amelioration in international relations. “ Nations maintain internal peace and good order by means of their own organised police forces,” v continued Lord Allenby, “ but as yet there is no international police, and nations continue to -make war on each other freely. To an unprejudiced and dispassionate observer there can, however, be no obvious reason why the rational procedure which resulted in the establishment of a happy state by fusion in amity mf once hostile tribes should not be extended to the creation of a wide comity of nations, independent, yet interdependent—a world federation of fellowship. Is it too much to believe that the human intellect is equal to the problem of creating a world State in which neighbours can live without molestation in collective security? It does not matter what that State is called. Give it any name you please—League of Nations, Federated Nations, or United States of the World. Why should there not be a world police just as each nation has national police.