WORLD PROBLEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22984, 11 March 1938, Page 13

WORLD PROBLEMS

Sir, —To-day there are two major problems. The one involves the question of feeding starving millions, and the other the revolutionising of government machinery in order that the world's business may be efficiently handled. As the masses in all countries are ignorant and apathetic, it is someNvhat hopeless to expect things to got better until they become worse, and then as of old they will be rectified by violence. What I fear for the present moro than a general war is the collapse of the dictatorships. Such news as is allowed to percolate through the censorships has an ominous note. Italy's Abyssinian conquest threatens to involve her in economic ruin. Germany is evidently having serious Internal troubles. Russia is busy with her purges, and Japan is trying to commit political suicide in China. I do not wish to see the collapse of the totalitarian States by violent means, which would bring about another economic debacle.. My present desire is to have them devolve into forms wherein government will be directed by a group of the ablest men, assisted by trained specialists. Some such system is the only way by which a measure of liberty can be retained by the individual. And in this I am at one with Shaw, Wells and Dean luce and other independent thinkers. ItOLYAT.