WORLD AS MADHOUSE
AIR J. B. PRIESTLEV’S VIEW ADVOCACY OF EUROPEAN FEDERATION. PROFESSOR ON COMPULSORY SERVICE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. December 3. “We are obviously living in a madhouse,” declared the author, Mr J. B. Priestley, who went on to advocate a federation of European States, including a democratic Germany, on the lines of the United States of America, with a central government, one currency, no customs barriers, one army, navy and ail’ •force, and one foreign policy, but each nation in charge of its own domestic affairs.
Professor Ernest Barker expresses the opinion that compulsory service will become permanent and thinks it will do good in levelling social classes, promoting discipline and developing youth at a critical age. There will probably be an armed force after the war, even if it were a federal army. There would be less universalism and more European ism after the war. Salvation would not come either from Russia or America.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 6
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162WORLD AS MADHOUSE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 6
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