Show Planning for Peace Means Looking Toward Tomorrow Agitation for sound world government has never been so marked as it is Yet for every world federalist willing to put his views on record there is a cynic ready to call him a sucker for ignoring Those who see the first faint glimpse of hope for world federation to replace world anarchy find they must educate for world government in their own before their ideas find It is therefore somewhat surprising that the resolution of the outgoing Board of Regents officially adopting as university policy the famous Humber Official Policy Declaration of the Federation of 99 the should have gone almost un noticed in the transaction of business by the board June The Humber resolution was adopted by the Utah state legislature in 1945 and by 15 other states after a crusade for insistence on world federation by Robert Lee It was cited as the basis for the Board of Regents resolution that the university undertake research upon the of The board also recommended that the university consider whether completion of a basic study of the structure of peace and world organization should not be a prerequisite to the granting of any academic Barring the obvious opposition to such a plan from schools which have already a crowded four-year there undoubtedly will be those who argue that the recommendations are vague and We have in classrooms and informal that framers of such resolutions have their heads in the clouds where rosy vistas deny the existence of a divided world where nationalism has for centuries been the single greatest motivating force in world Yet there is a sound basis for a study of world peace with an eye to world The board points out that the building of a just and enduring peace Basis for Study 3 now the greatest and most urgent task of and that the successful performance of this task depends upon a world-wide knowledge of the causes of In an era in which we are loathe to trust the conduct of diplomacy strictly to the professional should there be any reason why an engineer or doctor should not have a firm foundation of ideas concerning world government and world In a recent magazine Walter Lippmann indicates that American now alive has been educated and trained to deal with the the the influence and the power of the United States in the world We are all of us children of yesterday Since the discovery and dissemination of the regents are peculiarly the task of what better place to plan for world peace and to prepare for world federation than in the Now is it foolish to adopt a document like Humber's declaration as policy behind a move toward education for world Resolutions mean nothing until suited to Is the Humber resolution fallacious in assuming that nations are as willing as our in which 16 states have gone on record as favoring world federa- Favor Federation to adopt a world But according to Leo executive Research Institute of 62 of United Nations countries polled favored immediate world We are agreed on May not education provide the Is the document fallacious in assuming that man is the source of all political and that he is a citizen of many But the United States was founded upon such and a relatively enlightened America survived despite and century waves of reaction against such political Is the of the Federation of the a document of noisy platitudes which escape detection because men are overly anxious to avert war and to establish an agency which can divert strife to peaceful But we will never know with certainty unless we analyze government with the idea of establishing We will never have effective world government unless enough men are cognizant of those analyses to back them with a vigorous public opinion H. |