Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-08
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Continuing an article begun
in this column last week on post
war planning, the discussion turns
from the domestic to the inter
national scene, listing five diff
ferent points of view for the per-
iod following the wars end: The
free traders, the commodity con-
trollers, the economic national
lists, the welfare imperialists and
the world planners.
The summary was prepared by
George B. Galloway, faculty
member of the American Uni
versity, Washington, D. c.
Turing from the domestic to the
international scene, We find vast
ferment of discussion going on and
a mounting flood of literature on
planning for world peace. Analysis
of this literature reveals proposals
for both political and economic &C
ton.
On the level of international polit-
types of planning may be distin-
guished. In the first place, there are
those who believe that nothing less
than worldwide government will en-
sure lasting peace. This school of
thought advocates reconstruction of
the League of Nations or the forma-
ton of a new Association of Nations,
revival of the World Court, creation
of an international police force, es-
tabliShment of world bank and
similar institutions. The Institute on
World Organization and the World
Government Association are repre-
sentative of this approach.
A second school believes that the
world is not yet ready for world
wide government. Instead, they adj
vocate the formation of regional fed
erations of varying scope as the inner
core of an ultimate world associa-
ton. Typical of this viewpoint are
Clarence Streit'S scheme for a fed
eral union of the democracies, the
BRAND plan for a United States of
Europe, and schemes for declarations
of the Scandinavian countries, Poland
and Czechoslovakia, the Danubian
peoples and the Balkan states.
A third group of proposals on the
international political level are those
for the development of special or
functional ad hoe agencies, like the
Int OF T oh
for the judicial settlement of dis
putes, the administration of man.
date areas, and the performance of
health and welfare functions.
A fourth school of thought, really
variant of the third, is represented
by those who believe that the forms
of postwar international organiza-
ton will evolve principally from
methods of cooperation established
in wartime. They would make the
machinery of wartime collaboration
truly representative of all the United
Nations and continue the Combined
Boards (shipping, munitions, raw
materials, food, production and re-
sources) into the peace period,
mutatis mutandis, to perform the cor
responding tasks of peace on an in
ternational basis.
On the level of international eco
nomic relations it is possible to iden-
tify five different points of view for
the postwar period: The free trad
ers, the commodity controllers, the
economic nationalist, the welfare
imperialists, and the world planners.
The free traders are those who
would revive world trade by reduc-
ing trade barriers and return as fast
as possible to the Self-regulatory
mechanism of the free market, with
unrestricted competition. Secretary
Hull is the leader of this school of
thought in the United States. It was
inculcated by material conditions
that obtained in an epoch of human
history that has passed away for
of time Only classical economists
could dream of its resurrection.
The commodity controllers are
those who would retain the socially
desirable features of pre-war COM
modify control schemes for the pro-
duction and marketing of raw ma
terials and carry them over into the
postwar period, subject to public
control. They propose to establish
an international Raw Materials I'm
ion for such commodities as iron and
steel, copper, nickel, tin, aluminium,
zinc, lead, rubber, cotton, coffee etc.
The economic nationalist are
those who believe that nations can
live at home that the United States
can develop synthetics and substitutes
for imported raw materials, that we
should become economically self-suf-
ficient and maintain the American