UNITED NATIONS
sir,-The letter of your Auckland correspondent calls not for counter arguments but rather for an extension of the meaning of my letter of May 10. My use of the term "master mind" referred to the genus Planner, which desires to collectively organise the lives of individuals. This is contrary to the right of the individual to govern his own life or of a group to govern its own interests without being forced to accept collective decisions with which it does not agree. Law requires, however, that each individual or group shall keep the peace and respect the rights of others, and it is this law which our police force is designed to uphold. Is an international Police force the proper instrument of a similar law between nations? If it had the task of maintaining the law among a large number of States which were individually much weaker but collectively much stronger than itself, then the answer might be yes, but because of the nature of the association which it would have to protect, the only effective world police force would be comparable with or even greater than the remaining mobilisable strength of the member States. It is the ironic conséquence of our fear of the rival planners of this world that we are in danger of putting our final signature to a potential dictatorship of this sort. Do not over-estimate the importance of universal suffrage and the ballot-box; a democracy which can only give or withhold public sanction to central authority is not government by the neonnle.
NORMAN
WALWYN
(Te Kuiti).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 26
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263UNITED NATIONS New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 26
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