The Nome nugget., 1947-04-04
The World Citizen
Anchorage Daily Times)
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Anchorage Daily Times)
 AT LAKE SUCCESS the members of the United Ma tonS Human Rights Commission have begun work an unique project It is the creation of political be- ing upon the face of the earth-the world citizen.
 Even if the world citizen is confirmed stay-at- home he will be world citizen all the He won't be cosmopolite although the Greek words kosos and politics do mean world citizen For think of cosmop- ote as man of the world at home in any country.
 Politically this being will resemble everyone en- gagged in making him He will have traces of socialism communism and captalistc democracy. His character will be influenced by various religions and phoSophes
 But he will finally emerge with new look-the look of person who has certain definite rights which must be recognized and respected wherever on the face of the earth he happens to live
 The world citizen will mature slowly We who are living today may him only in his infancy for the people appointed to create him don't even know how to commence. Each knows how he wants his own partcu- lar world citizen to oo but there no agree ment. The commission members like the fairies in the nursery stories who stand around the cradle of newborn prince, endowing him with this quality and that
 Take MT. Tepliakov of the Soviet Unon for instance He's not what rights he wants the new world cti- to have. But he's pretty definite about some of the things he doesn't want him to have
 MT. Tepliakov would leave out the following: The rights of life, personal liberty and protection from sav- cry and compulsory labor the right petition national governments and the United Nations;; the rights of property, freedom of and resistance to op- pression; the right of protection from unlawful expro- priaton and retroactive penal laws.
 pr. Malik of Lebanon, on the other hand wants the world citizen to be free independent individual, first and last He would put the human person. above class nation and He calls the world citizens mind and conscience the most sacred and involabe thing about him. He thinks that forcing the world citizens consent by any social pressure is wrong In shor he believes the state exists for the individualan idea which doesn't please MT. Tepliakov.
 This disagreement among the creators means that their work will be long and difficult But that is to be expected and it is not dscouraging. At least the crea- tors assembled and laying an assortment of ingredients which they want to see used
 Eventually the creators should be able to agree on enough selections from the assortment to build being who embodes the rights of all men The only immediate danger is that of the creators might get mad pick up his ingredients, and go home.
 Who will protect the rights of this world citizen
 who all the inhabitants of the earh-in that distant day when he is an actuality? How will the government which denies him these rights be punished? Those are difficult questions They will have to be dealt with time, but not The immediate problem is to create the world citizen for permanently peaceful world is not possible without him.