To the Editor of the "Norti-Ciina Datty News" in view of another undeclarwhich is going on in the Hopei Province of China, there are seme pegafle who humbly ask what y be proposed to do in order to about solutions rather satis-and honourable to both China and Japan, It may be worth while ap for them to consider the view of George Paish, for example. He is a governor of the London School of Economies and Political Science.
Let me quote a part of his address to the American Academy of Political and Social Science as printed in its Annals for July, 1937. That part dealing with "the world situation and the way out" clearly reflects his view as follows Every nation in the world is in fact pursuing a. policy which if continued Wil amount! to political and econosme Suleide. In the st place, that policy is already creating it many. countries such difficulties. and privations 2s. to threaten to throw those nations into revolution, and. unless changed, that policy must sooner or later bring very Area? distress. to. all countries "and bring evolutionary conditions. even to the richest countries.. In the second Place, it is becoming increasingly evid-Ent that If nations continue to be im= poverished "in the way. that ma ations "are to-day being reduced. to poverty, the Tepereusgions will be not Sriy internal but external as Well, and War will be the inevitable consequence, war so. disastrous. that the entire World will be reduced to chaos and ruin. This is_no overdrawn ple itis a true description of the situa tion as {t exists to-day. Indeed, evers'= one with knowledge and understanding of. the situation recogetizes its The question which you, I am will asit me 1s not "Is this @ true state Ment of the situation as it exists to day? bub "How. can this" dangerous nation. be rectified and this.
ous outlook changed?" Let me say, I should not have come 0. place the Situation before vou, did 1 not realize that it can be changed if everyone can be caused to realize its gravity and so be prepared to act with understanding End common sense The present danger has arisen in the mag. because everyone is working. in compartment and does not unde: Hand or appreciate the relationship of a'"own "activities to the common Betivities of his fellow men. This appiles to nations as well as to indivi-Buals. Each person imagines. that he has merely to. consider his own. nat~ Tow riverest and. all will be well: he does not realize that unless his interest {e'in'tine with the common interest, Sooner or later disaster. is. inevitable How many of us recognize the truth a very wise statement made collec-the world's greatest men. business before the breakdown In 1825 In their effort to prevent that break: down? 'They said' "Your neighbours customers and their weltaye to your own well-being.) ferent world it. would to-day it Gs we realized that the prosperity essential to our own prosperity and that to enjoy great prosperity each: one needs not on! ise nO. injury to his neighbours, but do all he can to promote the—general What. an amazingly prosperous there would be if we all helped one Another to be prosperous, realizing that our own prosperity would follow as inevitably as day follows night, if we sought our own welfare by promoting the common welfare instead of seeking our own self-interest at the expense of others!
This is true of nations as of individuals, Every nation is to-day secking to preserve what it-regards as its own terests without considering the interests of others and consequently th entire world is on the toad that fo distress without_parallel in the history of mankind, The first thing to be done, therefore, is to recognize that each one of us in these days is part great family, and that in so far we make the entire family prosper-dus. we promote our own prosperity What an' amazing change will take place both in the immediate situation End in the outlook of the peoples of every nationality for all time, when this great change of thought' and of outlook takes place!....
'And how great wotild be the change in' international relations under 2 policy that did not push the nations [nto unparalleled distress but brought them. into unprecedented prosperity?
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