UNITED STATES OF WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18180, 28 August 1922, Page 7

UNITED STATES OF WORLD.

A VISION OF THE FUTURE. KEY IN AMERICAN SYSTEM. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 3.5 p-m.) NEW YORK; Aug. 26. 'Mr. Philip Kerr, who until recently was private secretary Mr. Lloyd George, addressing the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, said that the British Commonwealth could not last indefinitely in its present form. It would be replaced by greater things if the world progressed toward unity and peace. Somebody had suggested that he wished the United States to join the British Commonwealth. " I do not," declared Mr. Kerr, " for if it did, a nation of 110,000,000 would simply swallow one of 40,000,000. The great national cultures of France, Italy, Britain, the United £tates, 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 tiot to be, of creating a world., nation on the model of any national state now existing. Tho Federal Government and Congress, under the American system, can give no orders to an individual State.- Each is independent in its own sphere. Here, it seems to me, is the key toVthe whole problem."