Evening star., 1941-08-25
Writer Emissions
WurIess World
Sees international Society
Made Free From 6reed,
intolerance and Fear

intolerance and Fear
By OslDald Garrison Willard.
(This Is the seventh In q series by
leading American writer's on "The
World We Want to Live In" the theme
of the Williamstown Institute Of
Human Relations, August "a to 29)
If the world Of the future is to be fit
to live in, 1t must be warless. To the
arguments of peace lovers and humani-
tarians, of disciples of the belief that
. the commandment thou shalt not kill
applies to nations as well as to indi-
viduals, has now come reinforcement in
4. the fact that total war is insupportable;
that its chief victims are men in civil
occupations, women and children; that
its financial burdens are beyond the
power of the richest country to support
long; that the cities Of the greatest ma
tions cannot be defended from attack
through the sir: that unemployment,
famine. pestilence, poverty utter misery
come to all who participate; that the
destruction of goods, as of lives. is be-
yond computation. For the poorest rea-
son alone, the materialistic one, war
must be banished from our new world
or civilization falls. In our future 1t
no longer will be possible for rulers,
whether in relationships or democracies,
to take the pawns their people, into war.
With war out of the way, we want an
nrdn hItit ha nln
that, as William Lloyd Garrison put 1t,
my country is the world, my country
men all mankind; an ordered world
recognizing the incontestable truth that
Richard Golden, that great Englishman
told when he said that free trade and
peace are synonymous" With peace
achieved, the desire for high tariffs and
for self-contained and self-supplying
countries for war purposes will have
gone forever.
A cooperating world is what we seek
next, with peace guaranteed by q federal
government, or parliament, or q SEN
ate which shall not be dominated by
victors in the war, or by any group of
great nations; in which large and small
nations shall have equal rights and equal
privileges. 1t shall be a federation Of
nations, not run by prime ministers or
foreign ministers. or used by the most
powerful countries as an instrument of
national policies, but buttressed by a
world court which alone shall have the
right to decide on all disputes between
nations.
We want to live in a world without
colonies; with backward peoples held in
trust by the federal authority until self
governing, their lands developed pri-
marily for their inhabitants and Sec
ondarily open to access by all nations on
equal and just terms, with full recogni-
ton that fixed bounties of nature are
irreplaceable and are vouchsafed hu-
manity only for the use OF all mankind
We want true freedom of the seas-seas
free of all ships of destruction, utilized
only by the transports Of trafic and
trade, vessels not built as symbols of
national pride and power, nor operated
by governments as weapons In a warfare
of trade, but frigates Of peace, free Of
every harbor, welcome whatever their
flags, wherever they 60. We want a
world in which private greed and private
profit shall yield to the common veal
Most Of all we want in this warless
world we vision q recognition of the
absolute dignity, equality and liberty of
every man. without regard to race, creed
or color, with his rights and freedoms as
inviolable as his own life. We want in
our world-to-be no race determinations,
nor arrogant belief that some are born
to rule and others to be slaves; no pride
Of race, no plan to breed supermen to
conquer and dominate the globe. We
want mankind ruled by the example of
the gentle Nazarene, who wished not
only that children be suffered to come
unto Him, but all men and all women as
well. In that world we would gladly
barter even progress in science for the
right to advance with speed and surety
in the art of human elf-government. in
the love of mankind. along the road Of
good will for all and enmity for none
And We know that, with half the will
and zeal that goes into wars that ac-
complish nothing, our entirely practical
aims can be achieved.