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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 15, 1964
Harris Advocates World Government
If mankind has a future, it is because some form of world government will eventually be adopted.
This was the conclusion drawn by Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, in the twenty-fifth and final lecture of his series on war and peace.
"My object in this course of lectures has been to try and demonstrate that if civilized man is to survive . . . no practical alternative is open to him other than the establishment of world order under a single effective authority which would supersede the present plurality of nation-states."
The professor outlined three requirements which would precede the "solution" of world order.
THE FIRST REQUIREMENT would be a public statement by the chief world powers that the aim of their foreign policies in the immediate future would be to move steadily towards world government, and a declaration that they will avoid acts of mutual provocation.
The second requirement would be the strengthening of the United Nations "through consistent support by the main powers, who should make a point of acting in all possible instances through the U.N. and not independently of it."
Much valuable experience could be gained this way before attempting the more difficult task of world union. Other "obvious" regional groupings the professor cited were: Africa, south and east Asia, China, either by itself or with others, and Australia.
Prof. Harris cited four possible solutions to the problem of establishing world order.
The first one is the growth of one world power to the stage where it can impose his hegemony on all the rest. But the professor added that no power could succeed in doing this without resorting to force.
The professor referred to this as the "imperialist solution" and said although it would be a form of world government, it would be an undesirable one.
The second solution was described as the U.N. reform pattern, which seeks "the ultimate means of peace preservation through modifying the charter of the United Nations."
But this plan, the professor said,
The professor referred to the third solution of the "nuclear pattern."
"evades the issue of world government."
But the nuclear pattern falls short of world government, "only because it takes this to be temporarily unattainable."
In no way related to nuclear weapons, this plan would federate all democratic states with the open invitation to others to join when they are willing to subscribe to the aims and principles of the union and abide by the articles of the constitution.
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