ONE-WORLD NATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1922, Page 5

ONE-WORLD NATION.

AN IMPOSSIBLE IDEAL. THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH. New York, August 26. Mr. Phillip H. Kerr, editor of the “Round Table,” addressing the Institute of Polities at Williamstown, said:— “The British Commonwealth cannot last indefinitely in its present form. It will be replaced by greater things, if the world is to progress towards unity and peace. Somebody has suggested that I wish the United States would join the British Commonwealth. I do not, for if it did, the nation of 110 millions, would simply swallow up the one of forty millions. The great national cultures of France, Italy, Britain, United States, Germany, Russia and Japan differ profoundly. You cannot get them to merge uneir national identities in a vague cosmopolitan patriotism. There is no possibility and there ought not to be of creating a world nation on the model of any national State now existing. The Federal Government and Congress, under the American system, can give no orders to the individual State. Each is independent in its own sphere. Here, it seems to me, is the key of the whole problem.