WORLD ORDER
NEED TO STUDY FACTS. Discussing the problem of world order in a recent article, Sir Alfred Zimmern emphasises the need to study the facts. A policy or an attitude toward a problem, he says, must be based on a comprehensive knowledge of its constituent elements. And that knowledge must be the result of study and observation as close and dispassionate as in the field of natural science. A student of international politics has no more use for coloured spectacles than a doctor or an engineer or a chemist. Policies or attitudes which mistake desires for realities, which are the products of what Americans call “wishful thinking,” are no more serviceable in international politics than in a clinic or a laboratory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 8
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