WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin World Government: Utopian Illusion AT A TIME when bold, vigorous, constructive decisions in foreign policy are L urgently needed, it is...
...Here there is something to build on: a common culture, common military, political and economic problems, a common dangersubmergence by the Eurasian totalitarianism of the Soviet Union...
...Who could even speak today with any real authority for China, the most populous nation in the world...
...Every prominent figure in the Soviet regime, headed by Lenin and Stalin, has said this so often and so explicitly, that one would think the most.superficial observer of foreign affairs would have grasped the point...
...Finally, there is little difference] between the outright annexation of the Baltic Republics and the vassal status imposed upoa Poland, Rumania and other East European ant Balkan countries...
...revolution...
...The second, which would require generations of evolution to overcome, even if the Stwiet problem did not exist, is the tremendous disparity between the peoples of the world in standards of living, literacy and educational developments, political, economic and social institutions...
...RICHARD ARMOUR...
...There simply are no universally accepted standaids of law...
...In order to win the consent that is necessary for a free society, it requires a considerable cement of' shared experience and common ideals...
...Its zealous advocates are merely running down a blind alley of which the end is certain to be frustration...
...Stalin rephrased a familiar idea of Lenin when he wrote in his book, Problems of Leninism: "The victory of socialism in one country is not an end in itself...
...Such an assumption is mere day-dreaming sol wishful thinking...
...In the future, the West should emphasize that it alone can offer the Germans decent living conditions and true national unity and independence...
...But there are already significant implications in the Jessup-Malik talks...
...At first there is a pretense of coalition rule...
...Advocates of world government usually urge a system of world law, enforceable upon individuals...
...The lifting of the Berlin blockade—an unconditional withdrawal—will mean a psychological defeat for the Soviet Government...
...The Red Army is the persuasive instrument of "hastening the proletarian victory" in such countries as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia...
...To try to bring under the roof, of common government Americans and British, Spaniards and Italians, Chinese and Indians, Argentinians and Paraguayans would be to create not union, but...
...Finally, can anyone seriously envisage a world government law enforcement official serving a subpoena on an individual in Russia who might be operating an atomic arms factory in violation of a disarmament convention...
...Such cement would be entirely lacking in a world state...
...Wars originate not with individuals but with states...
...The local Communists occupy the key positions in the new government...
...Perhaps the writing of model constitutions for a government of the universe is as harmless a parlor game as any other...
...But this is again something that belongs in the realm of make-believe and fantasy...
...Federations] between peoples of similar traditions and habits...
...For this slogan, however attractive it may seem in theory, bears not the slightest relation to contemporary political reality...
...It is time to realize that a partitioned Germany is an unrealistic and, for the Germans, an unpalatable program...
...But here one encounters the second insuperable obstacle...
...Would Americans consent to be outvoted on such questions as trade and immigration by Chinese and Indians, who are more numerous...
...Hearts filled with dreams of brotherhood And freedom from degrading trammels...
...IT WOULD SEEM FAIRLY OBVIOUS by this time that the only kind of world government which would interest the men in the Kremlin is a Moscow-dominated world union of Soviet Republics...
...it must be looked upon as a support, as a means for hastening the proletarian victory in every other land...
...Trunks filled, or so we've understood...
...It will represent the Soviets' first open retreat before the Allies in the cold war, despite the fact that our airlift had just about nullified the blockade, and that our counter-blockade was a staggering blow to the Eastern economy...
...There is little doubt that the Soviets Will concentrate their demands around two points: withdrawal of troops, and unification of Germany...
...And having reached their varied goals Of love and culture, they depart...
...it is likewise the beginning and the continuation of the work...
...Fortunately, the overwhelming sentiment in this country was to the contrary: as long as the Berlin blockade continued, no fruitful negotiations could be held...
...But the safest prediction In this uncertain world is that not one of these constitutions will be ratified or realized within the experience of anyone, now alive...
...Newtpaper headline...
...Yet the Allied attempt to evade the issue of German nationalism has proved a failure...
...Is it even remotely conceivable that a goveflft ment that is fairly eaten up by xenophob*4 that makes Russia almost as difficult of access...
...When Joseph Stalin, in his January interview with Kingsbury Smith, asked for a meeting with President Truman to settle all differences, a considerable segment of American opinion urged the government to accept the offer...
...that only in union with the West can Eastern Germany be liberated from its "liberators" and returned to the national fold...
...Government is a slow .growth...
...confusion, not a true parliament of man, but a Tower of Babel...
...With Luckles...
...But the independent members of the coalition cabinet are ruthlessly and surelji eliminated...
...TjHEY came with love for kindred souls And hopes for higher, better art...
...And the first practical steps have already been taken: economic integration through ERP, political integration through the West European Union, military integration through the Brussels alliance and' the Atlantic Pact...
...These slogans represent the only Soviet formulas with a real appeal to Germans, although if realized, they would only provide "unification" under a Communist dictatorship...
...We have seen this theory translated into practice in country after country...
...li VERY WELL* SAY THE CRUSADERS f| world government, if the Soviet Government will not come in, let us form an international government without it...
...HOMEWARD BOUND Seven Cultural Rally Russians Depart, Carrying Big Supply of Cigarettes...
...Take the mere question of representation...
...The first is the philosophy of the ruling group in the Soviet Union...
...Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin World Government: Utopian Illusion AT A TIME when bold, vigorous, constructive decisions in foreign policy are L urgently needed, it is discouraging to see some people of intelligence and goodwill pursuing the Utopian illusion of world government...
...There are many varying answers to the question of what the state owes to the citizen and what the citizen owes to the state...
...Sweden and Norway decided to go their separate ways after trying the experiment of union...
...To dismiss world government for what it ii, an escapist fantasy, is not to stand for obsolete forms of extreme nationalism...
...One of the most pressing tasks of American diplomacy is to encourage strong regional groupings of likeminded nations, with some form of federated Europe as the most important immediate objective...
...It bears no relation to senow statesmanship...
...as Tibet, that forbids its citizens to marry foreigners, that makes a mockery of the nub] conciliatory methods of the UN, would accept the far mere drastic limitations of sovereignty involved in any scheme of world government...
...Having failed to dent American opinion with the Truman-Stalin meeting scheme, the Politburo minds now offer to lift the blockade and advance .two conditions: lifting of the Allied counter-blockade and arranging for a Foreign Ministers Conference...
...For the victory of the revolution is one country (in Russia for the present is not only the result of the unequal development and the progressive decay of imperialism...
...are hard to establish and consolidate...
...AN Editorial— Berlin Gesture THE EXPECTED LIFTING of the Berlin blockade may only constitute a temporary, tactical deviation from the long-run strategy of Soviet Russia...
...Some time will pass before we know which consideration inspired the Kremlin's latest offer...
...Or, on the other hand, it may reflect a far-reaching decision by the Politburo to recognize the power relationships in Europe and make concessions to the *'imperialists...
...Chesterfields, and Camels...
...WHEN THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF GERMANY arises, historic decisions will have to be taken...
...There are two obstacles to world government which are simply insuperable...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 19
