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Harris Says World Community Depends on Common Interests
Friday, March 13, 1964
REAL PEACE and not "sham" peace (or cold war) is the condition of security, Prof. Harris said. "The inter-war truce that we call peace, during which an unstable balance of power is maintained, is so liable to degenerate into conflict that it can be described only in terms of insecurity."
The realization of an international community depends upon the existence and recognition of common interests among the nations of the world, Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, said last night.
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"Today the threat of nuclear extinction is so tolerable and so real, that the interest in peace and security is vital and indispensable. . . The common interest in security is thus the core of world community interests at the present time." Prof. Harris said.
The nations of the world have important interests in common, Prof. Harris said. "The first and most obvious interest which is common to the peoples of the world today is security."
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At the present time these conditions are not fulfilled because of the power struggle among the "Great Powers" and the preoccupation of new nations with internal problems, Prof. Harris said
IT IS NOT sufficient just to have these common interests. This community of interest must be felt by those who share it to be of "para- mount" importance. Prof. Harris said.
Other examples of common interests among the nations of the world are economic interdependence as evidenced by world trade, cultural interdependence as illustrated by the exchanges of students and teachers, a common intellectual interest in science and art, and the worldwide spread of Western culture. These are a few of the common interests of nations which can form the foundation of a world community, Prof. Harris said.
This dispute, which is purely a "domestic matter on a tiny island, contains all the seeds of a world war," he said.
gers of power politics may bring the nations to a better realization of their common interests; but those dangers are so grave that to wait for that result involves appalling risks." Harris said, "A widespread campaign of propaganda and education is essential to accelerate the centripetal process."
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"WHAT IS needed is a loyalty to an international ideal and an authority which represents it." Prof. Harris said. "Such loyalty need not replace the feelings of patriotism we harbour for our national community any more than loyalty to the United States abolishes our attachment to the home state in which we live."
Prof. Harris cited NATO and the OAS as movements in the right direction. These regional organizations will not necessarily alleviate power politics or remove the threat of war, but they will provide the experience of cooperation and the working of subrational institutions, and it will make common interests more apparent, Prof. Harris said.
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