If I Were President

I have mentioned these few changes of the everyday life in America because they were the most obvious changes brought about merely by a little rational reflection of how one might best arrange such matters.

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Back of them—in fact, part of them—were the decisive institutional changes in political and economic affairs. The origins of these we shall consider later. But of course the great changes occurred in the international scene during the second half of the first term and were fairly well installed as we know them today by the middle of the second term. It began, as did so much in the Mills Administrations, on the round table.

At first, a few people—official and unofficial—from West European countries were invited to join the discussions, which were not on international affairs at all but domestic American. Then a few from Eastern Europe: Several of them were much admired as discussants and reasoners.

In the meantime a truly huge interchange of professors and students on a worldwide scale was instituted and paid for by a unilateral reduction in the war budget of 3 percent on the part of the United States. As many as one-third of the students of German universities, for example, were in U.

Near every university of any size in the world there was built a large dormitory and apartment house entirely free for any qualified student or professor, and of course in all underdeveloped countries big new colleges and universities were speedily erected, along with supporting secondary schools.

This interchange program developed in such a way that it became usual for any college student to spend at least one of his four years out of his own country. Came soon the day when a Russian philosopher and a Russian official joined the round table. The topic was housing, and of course the Danish architects ran away with it. But still the Russians were there. You see, in these hundreds of discussions about common human problems, the tone, the standard of men and women reasoning together, was established, and also—even more important—the idea and fact that things happened because of these discussions.

At first they were all American in personnel, but soon it became evident that students and officials of other nations had to be brought in, if only for ready factual information and for statements of policy, and so they were. For the round table as such, of course, no one was official.

No one spoke for, or by what he said committed, his government. So firmly was this rule established and understood that people in positions of power felt free to speak in public in a free and open way. There were also a series of official conferences in something of the old manner, but even these were influenced by the manner and by what was said on the round table.

Then there was the general context and the chief means by which the military metaphysics was replaced by an industrial view of the world problem; by which the permanent peace economy was established and total disarmament achieved. In a very schematic way, we may now review the arguments and the decisions involved:.

There are only two possible ways, a either make the weapons unavailable to everyone, or b make them available only in the name of an authority really responsible to all mankind. The first a way of disarmament was thought not too neat a solution, for it seemed difficult to enforce in a world still composed of nation states, and virtually all scientific work seemed relevant to the weaponry of war, so the second way b was adopted: All laboratories of consequence, previously private and public, were taken over by the scientific center. Scientists of all nations were in completely free interaction with one another, and responsible only to the world authority itself.

This did not happen at once: But the savings resulting from lack of duplication between nations and between industries made reduction quickly possible. The development and the production of weapons—out of the pool and the flow of scientific work—soon dwindled to a trickle, and then ceased altogether. It was simply that no one felt any need for them.

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What people did feel a need for were ways to quickly industrialize the underdeveloped countries of the world, and in due course the scientific center was devoting most of its budget and personnel to this end. It was, in short, precisely in the area of science and technology that the military metaphysics was abolished and replaced by an industrial view of the problems of the world.

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