LASTING PEACE BASED ON WORLD FEDERATION

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21336, 6 February 1941, Page 5

LASTING PEACE

BASED ON WORLD FEDERATION

The present war will have been worm tne sacrifices involved, in America and elsewhere, only if men build thereafter a permanent peace based on the foundation of a world federation, or commonwealth of nations. Tnat, says a staif correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor in New York, was the view j expressed at the first session of the ; American Historical Association. j To hundreds of educators gathered to assess the impact of war on : human society and decide the course ; of intelligent mankind in routing • ‘•this destructive anachronism,” Dr. | Bronislaw Malinowski, Professor of j Anthropology at Yale University, de- j dared that the war-breeding enemy j of today was the sovereign state, “even as we find it in some democratic countries, certainly as it has j developed into the malignant growth I of totalitarianism.” While Dr. Malinowski stressed that the League of Nations failed be- j cause its builders were “not prepared to abrogate one ounce of their poli- j tical sovereignty,” Dr. Oscar Jaszi, 1 Professor at Oberlin College, warned that if the democracies failed to | help even such areas as the Balkans to organise on a federal basis, the Nazis would impose on them a planned economic system conforming to the demands of German "Lebens- \ raum,” or living space, r Recognising that Americans are ! considering whether the United ! States should enter the present war, ( Dr. Malinowski said there could be ! put one objective —the complete 1 abolition of all future wars, j A morning discussion found Dr. | Max Lerner, Professor at Williams j College, differing on the after-effects | in the United States of the first I World War with Dr. George Mowry I of the University of North Carolina. While Dr. Mowry declared the war to have been responsible for the “glorification” of American business, Dr. Lerner held that the war developed controls which in effect made I President Wilson one of the “authors of the New Deal.” j Dr. Selig Perlman of the UniverI sity of Wisconsin, discussing the j role of Labour, held that if industry ! proved unable to resume its earlier I expansions, American unionism would be likely to espouse Govern-. I ment management of some industries, I in order to take up the slack in employment.