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POLITICAL and Economic Planning (P.E.P.) has issued a readable but comprehensive pamphlet entitled “European Order and World Order”. The principles on which the maintenances of Western civilization depends are summarized under four headings: freedom of thought, speech and movement; establishment of the rule of law both nationally and internationally; the progressive use of the State as an instrument of public welfare, not merely for policing or the protection of private interests; and the organization of production and distribution to raise the standards of living and of life of all peoples. Compromise on, or surrender of, any of these essential values endangers the stability of our whole civilization. The central problem for Europeans is to make clear those principles, to see that our institutions and policies conform to them and to place behind them an overwhelming and enduring assembly of forces.
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European Order and World Order. Nature 144, 948 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144948a0
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