1934-10-30 — Page 15

INTERNATIONALISM IS STILL TOO NARROW

By LEWIS R. MILLER

in the Christian Science Monitor.

66/THE_ trouble with theso planation.

people called internation- alists,” 1 romarked to the Profes. aor; na wa climbed the mountain, is that they look at things too broadly. They survey so much territory that they don't focus on anything. They give volee to Imposing generalities, but they do not convince un when they come down to particular canen.”

"On the contrary," replied the Professor, as we swung along up the trall, it seems to me that they don't look at things broadly en- ough. Their viewpoint isn't as wide as it should be."

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"But I am also an internation- [nlist. I believe war must, and can be, banished from the earth by the growth of International under- standing, and I am a supporter of the League of Nations because it is the only existing organization which has made a serious effort on anything like a world scale to prevent hostilitics and substituto conciliation and arbitration for conflict. So, you sec, I am nationalist and I am also an Inter- nationalist. But I am more.”

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"What" exclaimed, Incredul [ously. “You are more than an in-

ternationalist?"

"Yes," explained the Profesior, ne we continued our climb. "More than 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 further. I am con-

there wore

This was a surprise. I land often heard defenders of the League of Nations, for example. criticized as being superficial. More than one practical man of affairs had told me that lectures on international questions usually left him suspended In mid-uir, without really getting down to thevinced that there is a law opera- ronta of the subject under discus-

tive not only between nations but his being, over whatever land or look, who wrote, "If I take the CHILE CUTS IN ON elon. I was prepared to hear that

beyond, above and before them. sea he may navigate, there are wings of the morning, and dwell internationalists were faelle, im That is, a inw which existed before general ruica which must cam in the uttermost purts of the sen FAR EAST TRADE

Un even there! shall thy hand tend practical and as broadminded us to be shallow. But this

the

nations, which is mand universal recognition.

Chile is attempting to increase higher than the codes men have the high seas, there are no nationof me, and thy rigni nund anal hoid

tacir me."

the domestic production of rice, "You may be wondering," the the Republic, being ong

of the made, and which operates where national boundaries have tags and codes of saw with then. ¡

But imagine several men asiout on Professor remarked, turning to me, Latin-American countrica where never been delimited."

a raft on the ocean, tecaniany, "what all this, has to do with the it has never been produced on a umums in mackonu, be international subject we were discussing. It is large scale. The popularity of

this, Wo Bhati shy Lan

Our friends the internation- this grain necessitates imports of Jurisdiction.

alists, it seems to me, must keep approximately 8,000 metric tona. the.r eyes on the greatest truth annually at a total cost of about They must not think of interan-† 2,500,000 pesor, tional-law as consisting meresy of Domestic production of rice dur- treaties and conventions, Taeyling 1934 is estimated at about 300 must be ever mundiut or the most tons, which is five times the crop fundamental, the broadest factors of fast year. in human existence. That is what

This Nazi youth, along with thousands of others in Germany, is receiving valuable training to fit him for part in the futura operation of the Ralch'snaval sosisle. Under expert government suparvi- slon, German boys now are building exact models of thair country's battleships and liners, capable of moving under their own steam. The modal shown' here is that of the now cruiser Koenigsberg.

first time anyone had acensed them to me of being too narrowly

Lord Hanworth, Master of the Rolle, leaving Westminster Abbey after serviço held before the open- ing of the alithage.

Imited in their outlook.

"Whatever led you to such conclusion?" asked the Profes.

Nor.

"Well, to begin with," he ex- plained, "I don't like the word international. When I ace a bk or an article with that word in the title, simply don't read 11" "Maybe you're too much of a nationalat to be interested in any. thing beyond your own frontiers," 1 conjectured. i was pretty cer- tuin that this was not, the ease; but it seemed the best way 01 drawing my friend nit.

"Not at all," be assured me.

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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 hest qualities of character in a high-standard country than in a low-standard country. So I favour a tar mufficiently high to protect: that standard. Yes, I am a nation. allst 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-

Colonel Chariss, Lindbergh an his way to the Court. In New York to tealfy in the extortion case 'against Hauptminn.

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"How do you know there was a law before there were natinas?" 1 naked.

The Professor asked me a ques- tion in return: "Can you imagine a world in which a mother would feel no obligation to protect and care for her child?***

"No."

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I mean by saying that iney aro I still had one more question not, as a rule, tou broad in their, to ask, and I put it to the Professor viewpoint, But sumet.mes not just us we attained the goal of our climb, and stood, upon the summit road enough."

of the peak.

they are not subject to the laws of human conduct whics are uni-, versny recognużed?"

WHAT 13 Tens LAW? We were approaching the sum init of the mountain. A beautiful unrolled before us, "Do you think a national governm ment is necessary to enforce spreading mile after me to a

takt Forazda we paused, and "No. I see what you mean,

Of the Professur gazed anead.

"The astronomers," he comments soome, that sort of law is to be found in the most primitive stages among the depths of the

"You would have them think not of human He. and

in heaven, even

governed by law, operating with so much of international law ng animals,"

They a universal law?” { queried. "It is a fundamental law, Jan't pession had in na,thany,

de not admit that there ja u porava "That's it, exactly, he replied, "Yes, it certainly is older than space waten dues not come with "Not only, international, but eni- For The Universa la nations,, and therefore older than in an orderly system. Theirs is versal, internationalism.

without the breadth of the Psalmust's out- greater than the nations.“ For nations there can be no interna- Lonalism. But to come to your second point. You said that there is a law higher than any codea man has made, Can you prove that?"

LAW AGAINST LYING?

"Certainly,” replied the Profes- Bor, with assurance. "Have you ever heard of a statute against lying?"

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"Of course, have, There are laws against libel and slander.. against perjury, and other forms of lying."

"But, these

not, strictly spraking, laws 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 tahu and shout a lie into the im- menalty of space without being Intraid that a sheriff would rush up and place me under arrest. No statute or common law could be turned against me unless harmful would know that I had told a lie. consequences resulted. Yet. 1

And

even if no one had heard me. moreover, I would know there is a law against it, but not a human luw. I know that to tell a lie is to violate the divine law. And 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 daily existence."

UNIVERSAL LAW.

There remained his third point) to be elucidated, and so I naked him, as we marched on, "What do you mean when you any there is a law that operates even where no national boundaries have been established 7"

That," he remarked, "is easy to Illustrate. There are still great) spaces where national boundaries do not exist. In the polar regions,: there are vast areas which are no man's land. 1 read recently of al man and, woman who live some- where near the boundary between Alaska and Canada, but whoj actually do not know whether their home is on British or American soll. Explorers have yet, 1. be- lieve, 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- ards may never have taken form in statutes or even in judicial do- cisions. And we ourselves cor- tainly do not feel that the only curb upon our actions is the civil tay under which we live, for every! day we do things or refrain from do.ng them, not because they would be legal or illegal, but be cause our highest sense of right determines our

continued

"Tho law of the the Professor, "is only now being formulated; as a result of the development of aviation. This le a recognition of the truth that in whatever elemont man may have

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"Admitted that there is this universal law, what is it, and how would you describe it?"

"The most satisfactory name I have ever been able to find for it,'

nswered the Professor, "Is Love."

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