Dec. 17, The latest mails received from London contain equivalents of the suyyestion made in these columns on December 10, that there sat deal of real scientific brain being, allowed to yo to waste at the present moment men whose reputations are international, but because they are objectively minded, have been hounded out of their countries and up precarious livings giving id there. A proposal was put time that the best of these men should be selected to form a commission to prepare for 4 world fit for human beings—not heroes, this time—to live war has been won, the Nazis have a positive plan which they intend to put into operation should they: prove successful: while the Allies, beyond determined that the Nazis will never have so far produced little that is con-
Which is at the moment being destroyed. Tt is therefore with considerable pleasure that it is Iearnt that this idea has not been over~ looked in London, and that articles canvassing, the possibilities Imve appeared in several journals in the British parently aroused widespread interest Yeni, before the idea was mooted here, The principal exponent of the idea in th "News-Chronicle," Mr. Philip Jordan, his cerystalized the scheme in the title "A Minis" try of the Future." He would have an offt= cial body formed out of the talent which is at present being allowed to go to waste, fo determine a framework for the world which will take the place of this present one. With his ultimate aims the journal is in ful lest sympathy, but would warn against the creation of any "official" body. The status of stich a body, should it be formed, is of the utmost importance. It should not be handicapped by being 56 "official" that it must be given the flame of a Ministry. ft should be a flexible and, dependent organization, free of the usual "red tape" which hampers officialdom, which can make suggestions with the authority of experts, which suggestions
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