thegreatresoot: Reminder that members of Milner's Kindergarten/Milner's Group and later the Royal Institute of International Affairs (and the subsequent branches of the Round Table Groups) have published their goals for an end to national sovereignty and the creation of an international one-world government for over a century.
"From Empire to Commonwealth by Philip Kerr, Foreign Affairs, December 15, 1922, Vol. 1, No. 2. Pages 97-97.
"What of the future? In my judgment the problems of the British Commonwealth are becoming merged in the world problem. It is no longer a question of maintaining law and order and promoting orderly self-government over sections of the earth's surface, but over the earth as a whole. Obviously there is going to be no peace or prosperity for mankind so long as it remains divided into fifty or sixty independent states, brought hourly into closer contact with one another, yet with no real machinery for adjusting their relations save diplomacy and war. Equally obviously there is going to be no steady progress in civilization or self-government among the more backward peoples until some kind of international system is created which will put an end to the diplomatic struggles incident to the attempt of every nation to make itself secure, and which will hold in check, under a mandatory or other regime, those deleterious forces of civilization already described.
The real problem today is that of world government. Every month that passes will bring home to people more and more clearly that all political problems - whether of preventing war, of establishing stable conditions for trade and commerce, of ending unemployment and bettering social and economic conditions, of improving constitutional organization - all ultimately come back to the problem of ending international lawlessness upon the earth and establishing some method by which world problems can be discussed and settled by constitutional means rather than by force or the threat to use force."
"From Empire to Commonwealth by Philip Kerr, Foreign Affairs, December 15, 1922, Vol. 1, No. 2. Pages 97-97.
"What of the future? In my judgment the problems of the British Commonwealth are becoming merged in the world problem. It is no longer a question of maintaining law and order and promoting orderly self-government over sections of the earth's surface, but over the earth as a whole. Obviously there is going to be no peace or prosperity for mankind so long as it remains divided into fifty or sixty independent states, brought hourly into closer contact with one another, yet with no real machinery for adjusting their relations save diplomacy and war. Equally obviously there is going to be no steady progress in civilization or self-government among the more backward peoples until some kind of international system is created which will put an end to the diplomatic struggles incident to the attempt of every nation to make itself secure, and which will hold in check, under a mandatory or other regime, those deleterious forces of civilization already described.
The real problem today is that of world government. Every month that passes will bring home to people more and more clearly that all political problems - whether of preventing war, of establishing stable conditions for trade and commerce, of ending unemployment and bettering social and economic conditions, of improving constitutional organization - all ultimately come back to the problem of ending international lawlessness upon the earth and establishing some method by which world problems can be discussed and settled by constitutional means rather than by force or the threat to use force."
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