The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-05
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before the leading peoples Of the
world could arrive at the point
where the formation of the world
state was not only what many of
them desired but what in fact they
were engaged in creating.
Now the ancient ideal has be-
come an idea, indispensable in fact
to which men have been compelled
to turn; there is no other way they
can exact justice for the crimes of
the war, no other way they can
establish effective safeguards a
gainst the misuse of the weapons
of mass destruction, no other way
they can hope to make International
agreements enforceable. The solu-
ton of the most urgent practical
problems and the advance toward
a wider and greater order of peace
among men depend upon the same
fundamental idea. We need not
hesitate to recognize it and to pro-
claim it and to employ 1t as the
creative principle Of the coming
order of mankind.
Not our powers Of persuasion
but the inevitability of the truth
will convert mems minds and en-
list their support. We need not sup
pose that all the nations and all the
peoples in them will become sud-
denly unanimous and incandescent
with enthusiasm to found the world
state. Some must be convinced be-
fore many can be convinced, and
Under any practicable conditions
the affairs Of the world will long
be determined by the rivalries, the
combinations, and an uneasy equi-
librium among the sovereign and
powerful states. But in this con-
dition of the world, a new event
may and can. and could be made to
intervene. That event would be the
decision of the American people to
make the formation of the world
state the principle objective Oh
their own foreign policy.
This can be made to happen. For
the American people, who have
learned that they cannot live In
isolation, have no taste and no
aptitude for the career of world
power among world powers, and
no faith that good can come of it.
lntuitively and by tradition they
believe that security and serenity
and great achievements require a
universal order of equal laws and
can never be had in a mere eqM-
librium of sovereign states. 1t would
conform, therefore, with American
ideals and with American interests
to dedicate the power and influence
of the United States to sponsoring
and pressing for the formation of
a world state.
If that were the dynamic core Of
the foreign policy of the United
States, the influence of this deci-
sion upon mankind would be enor-
nous. The United States is at thu
zenith of its power and for the time
being at least is the sole possessor
c. the most devastating weapons
ever manufa ctured on earth. There
is no doubt that if at this moment
in history the United States raised
the standard many nations would
Immediately rally to it and in all
other nations more and more of the
people.
Never was there such an oppor-
tunity for any people as is ours,
though briefly if we do not seize it..
We can use the pre-eminence of our
military power SO that an ideal for
all mankind, not the United States
of America, as a national state,
may dominate and conquer the
world. The issues of territory and
of resources and all the other knot
ty problems of settling the war and
of making peace will still have to
be dealt with. The Struggle of civil
lied men with the primitive, the
stubborn, the malign, and the
stupid, within each of us a:.S all
about us, will not end. But how
different would be the assumptions
and the expectations Of diplomacy
if, as a great power, in the COM
pany of other nations who would
surely be with us, we were com.
mitted to the formation of a world
order Of universal law! Merely to
have begun upon this enterprise
though the first steps be small and
difficult, would be to introduce into
all the calculations and judgements
of international affairs new orien-
tation, and into mems lives 2 COM
polling purpose.
Reprinted by permission from
Gone World or None, a Report
to the Public on the Full Mean
ing of the Atomic Bomb" pub
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