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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JUNE 4,1946
Malin Writes in History Magazine
'Air Age' Offers More Freedom to World
Radio, television, and aircraft—the "air age trilogy"—offer new possibilities to the world after nearly half a century of living under the idea of two-dimensional closed space. Prof. James C. Malin, writes in "Space and History," an article in a recent issue of Agricultural History.
At the end of the Columbian world, the era of discovery and exploration, came a period of pessimism and defeatism because there were no new lands to explore. This concept of closed space reached America in the depression of the 1930's. Professor Malin says.
Now, with the coming of the air age, man again has available new mobility and speed. This however, brings responsibilities as well as advantages, Professor Malin warns. Shortening of the time factor deprives man of valuable insurance against his own actions, the professor says.
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There is room in the air age world, he continues, for seven great powers: North America (the U.S. and Canada), Russia, China, the British Empire, Japan, Germany, and a Latin union of Western Europe. Since history has shown that Japan and Germany are true nation-states, it may be the interest of the United Nations to reconstruct them, he says.
In their own areas, each of these seven powers should be unmolested, and none should attempt to encroach on another's territory. Professor Malin calls distant, outlying air bases "essentially aggressive", a threat to any neighbor in their region.
"The United States should be bound by the same principles with respect for areas outside America that she imposes upon the great powers with respect to America," he says.
Some international organization to preserve world peace is necessary, but it should not be attempted all at once, from top to bottom. One of the wisest decisions made by America's founding fathers, the professor adds, was to postpone certain hotly-contested conflicts, such as slavery. A civil war in 1789 would have wrecked the Union. In 1865 there was an underlying idea of unity which permitted reconstruction.
Equality of men 150 years ago meant something entirely different, he continues. Then the goal was equality of opportunity, a chance for each man to find his own intellectual and productive level.
Our institutions of democracy and religion must make adjustments, according to Professor Malin. The executive branch of government has outstripped the legislative because it can make faster decisions. The United States is in the position where, as demonstrated by the late President Roosevelt, the president
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"The foreshortening of time by the air age calls for revision of the unwieldy and indecisive machinery of tradition, and the building into the institutions of democracy the means of speedier and more accurate decisions."
Religion must furnish to man once again certain mystical, supernatural consolation he once found. Discoveries of science have cast into doubt many of his primitive ideas, and the world's religions, including
Christianity, have not furnished something new in return, Professor Malin says.
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