Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
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Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
Peace; World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
The fifth suggestion is that these and all other projects for the
creation of the world-mind and centralized organization be furthered
by utilizing all the modern methods of the commercial “accelerator
of public opinion,” the publicity agent and the advertiser versed
in psychologically efficient methods. There should be an adequate
world-publicity service, the task of which should be to develop
like responses to the proposed projects in the populations back of
governments, and by publicity methods to develop that like-mindedness
which is essential for world-wide organization on the sympathy basis.
The development of many other projects similar to those outlined
above, it is apparent, would inevitably tend toward the production
of centralized organization with many departments. Separate world
organizations for different purposes could not long exist without
integration. The central organization would inevitably assume the duties
of the international postal union; it would create a world monetary
system; and it would assume the functions of an international court.
With increasing prestige, such an organization would gain greater and
greater moral power. Resting on like-mindedness in the populations back
of national governments, it would ultimately develop a world-loyalty
and find its recommendations enforced by the moral sense of the world.
Force, except for local police purposes, would not be needed.
[Sidenote: Peace proposals should inaugurate like-mindedness.]
The final suggestion based on the preceding analysis is that the
principle underlying these projects be adopted as at least one of the
fundamental propositions for the guidance of peace negotiators at the
close of the present war. Peace should be established not upon the
basis of the interests of victorious nations alone, nor even upon the
combined interests of victors and vanquished, but upon the basis of
the future welfare of all peoples. The inauguration of policies for
the production of like-mindedness might well be provided for in the
peace treaty itself. National boundaries should not be set on a basis
which will intensify national self-sufficiency and aloofness, but on a
basis which will encourage inter-communication and the development of
like-mindedness throughout the world. Moreover, the choice of national
representatives for the peace negotiations should include men capable
of taking the world-view rather than the exclusively nationalistic
view. Representatives of the neutral nations should be admitted to the
proceedings. A popular demand that these representatives be of the
world-mind type should be created immediately by publicity methods. So
far as possible, practical projects for the creation of the world-mind
and world-organization should be provided for in the treaty of peace,
and as a guarantee of good faith no indemnity other than a pro-rata
contribution for the maintenance of these projects should be exacted.
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