WHAT'S YOURS IS MINE
THE INTERNATIONAL SHARE-OUT By Barbara Ward. Nelson (London). 174 pp. 2/6 nett. Discussion book series. It would be hard ‘to find more careful impartiality even in the other books of this excellent series. The author makes out a good case for the " Haves" in the international share-out of colonies and raw materials, but is-scrupulous in stating the arguments of the " Have-nots." She is persuaded, after her, examination of the facts, that twentieth-century colonial claims and wars have been economically unjustified-that in fact they have seriously endangered the economic stability of the nations concerned. She states the superficial argument that they have been made and waged to bring sources of materials within the currency boundaries of weakened economic systems, so that exchange may be independent of the standards of more stable nations. But this has not
worked. The other argument that ex pansion has at least served political or patriotic ends is still more quickly dismissed when it has been considered against the logic of L.S.D. The solution. proposed is ener: like international free trade,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 34, 16 February 1940, Page 27
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