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Show I Invincible Forces at Work Making for Growth of Internationalism By DR. JOHN RANDALL, Director World Unity Foundation. Popular conceptions of nationalism have been so magnified since the World war as to assume the aspect, of a great popular myth. The notion attributes to an international boundary line mystical properties far greater than those it actually possesses. At the beginning of the war the French and the Germans resorted to every subterfuge to make it appear armed forces of the opposing nation na-tion had crossed the boundary first, solely to gain popular support by an appeal to this prejudice. But coincident with the spread of this glorification of nationalism, the world's economic forces have been steadily at work making for internationalism. inter-nationalism. A hundred years ago most countries might well have styled themselves self-sufficient, but today every nation specializes, each is interdependent in-terdependent with the others in the intricate economic scheme of the world. |