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A Tale of the 'Evans, v. 2, issue 2, Spring 1944
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page 3. THAT COMMON MAN LOOKS SOME MORE I was very much interested in the various comments on my article "A Common Man Looks At The Post War World". Especially what Speer had to say. However, I want to disagree (in a friendly way) with his disagreement of what I said about "some sort of a world Congress". I still think it can be done without any people having to give up their own right to choose the type of government under which they wish to live. With all due respects to Speer, whose undoubted soundness and judgment I respect, I still cannot see any sense in his argument. I do not vision a World State, with a World President (or Emperor or what-have-you of that nature), but a Congress (Diet, Parliament or what-will-you), representing all of the various units of government in the world, and headed by a Co-Ordinating Committee, or some sort. For, as I see it, that is what is needed more than a type of super-government. Co-Ordination of interests of every kind including political, economic and educational, for the safe-guarding of each peoples' mutual and individual interests. If we wish to continue our present democratic form of government, or evolve to another type, that is our business-- as long as we do not interfere with the rights of anyone else. If Russia decides to continue their present more-or-less Communistic State, or change to another form, that is her business, as long as she does not infringe on the rights of other nations. Similarly with whatever form any other nations decide bests suits their peoples. To use an old example I taught my children, when telling them about observing the rights and privileges of others as well as our own, "I have a perfect and inalienable right to swing my fist anywhere I want to, with the restriction that my right to so swing my fist ends just before your nose begins". This right and privilege belongs just as much to nations as to individuals. And, too, just as individuals can live together in peace and harmony and economic security as long as each individual observes that rule, so can nations. Our long period of friendly neighborliness with Canada perfectly reflects that, for our own boundary defense is our mutual observance of that rule. Without it we could never have remained friends without countless border incidents which would soon involve use in war if we let them. No, Friend Speer, I still think our ultimate solution of the World Peace we all Xnt so much, and which we must have if the human race is to survive and grow to the heights toward which we aspire, is contained in those principles of Co-Ordination, super-imposed on individual governmental "states rights". Nor can I go along with you on the "alcohol and peace" educational argument. It is all too true that education has not emancipated the human race from its indulgence in alcohol, but if you have many any sort of study of the trend before that unfortunately too-early "Noble Experiment", you will know that great strides had been made there -- and it was not done with the sort of "intensive
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page 3. THAT COMMON MAN LOOKS SOME MORE I was very much interested in the various comments on my article "A Common Man Looks At The Post War World". Especially what Speer had to say. However, I want to disagree (in a friendly way) with his disagreement of what I said about "some sort of a world Congress". I still think it can be done without any people having to give up their own right to choose the type of government under which they wish to live. With all due respects to Speer, whose undoubted soundness and judgment I respect, I still cannot see any sense in his argument. I do not vision a World State, with a World President (or Emperor or what-have-you of that nature), but a Congress (Diet, Parliament or what-will-you), representing all of the various units of government in the world, and headed by a Co-Ordinating Committee, or some sort. For, as I see it, that is what is needed more than a type of super-government. Co-Ordination of interests of every kind including political, economic and educational, for the safe-guarding of each peoples' mutual and individual interests. If we wish to continue our present democratic form of government, or evolve to another type, that is our business-- as long as we do not interfere with the rights of anyone else. If Russia decides to continue their present more-or-less Communistic State, or change to another form, that is her business, as long as she does not infringe on the rights of other nations. Similarly with whatever form any other nations decide bests suits their peoples. To use an old example I taught my children, when telling them about observing the rights and privileges of others as well as our own, "I have a perfect and inalienable right to swing my fist anywhere I want to, with the restriction that my right to so swing my fist ends just before your nose begins". This right and privilege belongs just as much to nations as to individuals. And, too, just as individuals can live together in peace and harmony and economic security as long as each individual observes that rule, so can nations. Our long period of friendly neighborliness with Canada perfectly reflects that, for our own boundary defense is our mutual observance of that rule. Without it we could never have remained friends without countless border incidents which would soon involve use in war if we let them. No, Friend Speer, I still think our ultimate solution of the World Peace we all Xnt so much, and which we must have if the human race is to survive and grow to the heights toward which we aspire, is contained in those principles of Co-Ordination, super-imposed on individual governmental "states rights". Nor can I go along with you on the "alcohol and peace" educational argument. It is all too true that education has not emancipated the human race from its indulgence in alcohol, but if you have many any sort of study of the trend before that unfortunately too-early "Noble Experiment", you will know that great strides had been made there -- and it was not done with the sort of "intensive
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