THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER
1984.
INTERNATIONALISM IS STILL TOO NARROW
By LEWIS R. MILLER
in the Christian Sciener Monitor.
trouble with theso planation.
"Troopla exiled internation
"But I am also an Internation-
alists, I remarked to the 'Profes-nlist. bellove war must; and can nor, as we climbed the mountain, ke, banished from the earth by the "is that they look at things too growth of International under- broadly. They survey so much standing, and I am a supporter of territory that they don't focus on the League of Nations because anything. They give voice to is the only existing organization imposing generalities, but they do which has made a serious effort on not convince us when they come anything like a world Beale to down to particular cases."
prevent hostilities and substituto conciliation, and arbitration for conflict. So, you, Ace,, I am nationalist and I am also an inter nationalist. But I am more.” *
"On the contrary," replied the Professor, an we swung along up the trail, it seems to me that they don't look at things broadly en ough. Their viewpoint isn't as wide as it should be."
This was a surprise. I had often heard defenders of the League of Nations, for example, criticized s being superilcini. More than one practical man of affairs had told me that lectures on international questions usually left him suspended in mid-air, without really getting down to the roots of the subject under discus- sion. I was propared to hear that internationalists were facile, im- practical and so breastminded us to be shallow. But this
the
first time anyone had accused them to me of being too narrowly
Lord Hanworth, Master of the 'Rolls, leaving Westminster Abbey After a service held before the open- ing of the siltings.
limited in their outlook:
"Whatever led you to such a conclusion" i asked the Profes-
SOT.
"Well, to begin with," he ex- plained, "I don't like the word international. When 1 see a book -or-an-article-with-that word in
the title, I simply don't read it,"
"Maybe you're too much of u nationalist to be interested in any thing beyond your own frontiers," I conjectured, I was pretty cer- tain that this was not the case, but it seemed the best way of drawing my friend out.
"Not at all," he assured me. "I admit I am a bit of a nationalist, or you might call me a patriot, in some respects. For example, I don't see why my country, which manages to maintain a high stand- ard of living, should allow an Oriental nation with a low stand- ard of living to flood it with cheap goods. I believe men have a better opportunity to develop their best qualities of character in a high-standard country than in a low-standard country. So I favour a tariff aufhelently high to protect that standard. Yes, I am a nation- alist in that respect."
WAR MUST BE BANISHED. We paused for a moment to look out across the valley below us. The Professor continued his ex-
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""What?" I exclaimed, incredul- ously. You are more than an in- ternationalat?”
"Yes," explained the Professor, ns we continued our climb. "More thon an internationalist. An in- ternationalist, as I understand the term, is one who believes that there are laws operative not only within each nation, but between nations. I go farther. I am con- vinced that there is a law opern-
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On! there were nations, which is mand universal recognition. higher than the codes men have the high sens, there are no national] made, and which operates even boundaries, Ships carry their where national boundaries have flags and codes of aw with them. GERMANY'S BANISHED
never been delimited."
"Ifow do you know there was a Inw before there were nations?" I asked.
The Professor asked me a quen tion in return: "Can you Imagine a world in which a mother would feel no obligatiun to protect and care for her child?"
"No."
But Imagine several men adoat on a rail on the ocean, technically under no nationni or international! jurisdiction. Who shall say ton! they are not subject to the laws) human conduct whien are uni-) vemanly recognized?"
WHAT IS THIS LAW? We were approaching the sum "Do you think a national govern-mit of the mountain. A beautiful ment is
necessary 10 enforce
unrelied betore panorama that?"
spreading mile actor mile to a “No. I set what you mean. Of
distant horizon. We paused, and course, that sort of law is to be the Professor gazed ahead. found in the most primitive stages of human life, and even in animal,"
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"The astronomers," he comment. Young men and women, many of ed, "plumbing the depths on the them of great intellectual promise, "It is a fundamental law, isn't | heavens, discover A AVUIRE
and likely to add-us the lugne. lt 7"
governed by law, operating with mots did--materially to the wealth "Yes, it certainly is older than | precision and In haimony. They, and amenities of the countries nations, and therefore older than
du not damit that there is a partien berrlending them, are thus being Internationalism. For without of space which does not rome with nations there can be no interna-in an orderly system. Theirs is given a real start. tionalism. But to come to your the breadth of the Psalmist's out- London has found homes for 180 second point. You said that there look, who wrote, f take the students, tendhera and other mem- is a law higher than any codes wings of the morning, and dwell hers of the dispossessed German man has made. Can you prove in the uttermost parts of the sen; professional classen, mostly of
even there shall thy hand lead Jewish that?"
origin. Oxford. Cami- me, and thy right hand snail hold, bridge, Edinburgh, Liverpool and other British educational centres mc.*
Professor remarked, turning to me, placed 60 scholars in American "You may be wondering," thu are co-operating. New York, n har report just Issued states, "what all this has to do with the institutions of higher learning. subject we were discussing. It
The total number of people be-
LAW AGAINST LYINGT "Certainly," replied the Profes- sor, with assurance, "Have you ever heard of a statale against lying?"
of lying."
"Of course, I have. There are this. Our friends the Internation. tawa ngainat libel and slander.alists, it seems to me, must neep longing to the academic and pro- against perjury, and other forms their eyes on the greatest truths, fessional groups who have to be-.
They must not think of internal lie anew and in fare.gn coun- tional law as consisting murely of tries la now more than 7,500. treaties and conventions. They must be ever mundial of the most COSTLY.IMMIGRANTS. fundamental, the broadest tactors in human existence. That is what I mean by saying that they are not, as a rule, too broad in their
Romel.mes but.
-Mr. James G. McDonald...Dr.
"But these are not strictly speaking, lawa against lying," said, the Professor. "They are merely laws to protect the citizen against the consequences of another's untruthful or injurious statements. I could stand on top of this moun- tain and shout a le into the im- mensity of space without being afraid that a sheriff would rush up and place me under arrest. No statute or common law could he so much of international law . £:00,000 will be needed in 1934-36 turned against me unless harmful of universal law?” I queried. consequences resulted. Yet 1
viewpoint. broad enough."
many
Alfred E. Cohen, Dr. Stephen Dug-
On the large aerodromes an, Prof. C. S. Gibson, Dr. Chaim; We zmann, and other international; not workers in this deserving cause, planes of different models and con-
met in London. July 4 and 5.
Ertructions are seen. The plane
"You would have them think not
would know that I had told a lie.. That's it. exactly." he replied, even if no one had heard me. And "Not only international, but uni- For the universe is moreover, I would know there is versal.
greater than the nations."
a law against it, but not a human law. I know that to tell a lie is
. Mr. McDonald estimates. that.hown above which looks like n
and almilar sum in the following gigantic insect, recently appeared at year to meet the requirements of
the academic, professional, and the Tempelhofer aerodrome student emigrants. He is negotia.
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ting with the various governments
Berlin.
bear'
for the placing of a limited num- to violate the divine law. And to ask, and I put it to the Professor country.
I still had one more question ber of these refugees. In cach grants after July, 1936. In this ease 420 of the emigrated German that is higher than human law,
So, you see, there is a law higher than man-made codes, however helpful they may be in the affairs of dally existence."
UNIVERSAL LAW.
There remained his third point
Just as we attained the goal of our A statement by Mr. McDonald scholars will by then have been of the peak. climb, and stood upon the summit expresses the hope that by July enabled to continue their work.
1936-provided sufficient funds
Efforts are being made to raise are forthcoming-140 scholars willi have been absorbed by universities further funda. Mont of those no and similar teaching Institutions far collected have been from besides 150 in research labora-:
"Admitted that there is this universal law, what is it, and how would you describe it?"
"The most satisfactory name torles. It is, "reasonably certain," Jawish sources. Mr. McDonald to be elucidated, and no I naked have ever been able to find for it," the statement adds, that. another) now appeals to the Christian com-
answered the Professor, "ia Love." 130 scholars can be maintained on munity for increased help.
him, ne we marched on, "What do you mean when you say there is a law that operates even where no national boundarles have been established?"
"That," he remarked, “is casy | Lo Illustrate. There are still great! spaces where national boundaries' do not exist. In the polar regions, thors are vast areas which are no man's land. 1 read recently of a man and woman who live some where near the boundary between Alaska and Canada, but who actually do not know whether their home is on British or American soil, Explorers have yet, I bo Hove, to find, a race of men who do not recognize some sort of law, although their codes may appear barbarous in our eyes. They have their standards of right and wrong, even though those stand- arda may never have taken form in statutes or even in Judicial de- cisions. And we ourselvos ger- tainly do not feel that the only curb upon our actions is the civil law under which we live, for every day we do things or refrain from doing them, not because they would be legal or illegal, but bội, cause our highest sense of right defermines our conduct,
"The law of the air," continued the Professor, "la only now being formulated, as a result of the
development of aviation, This is) n' recognition of the truth that in whatever element man may have
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