Foreign News: No Paper Plan

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Autonomy. "The new world that we seek will enlist the cooperation of all peoples on a basis of human equality, self-respect and mutual tolerance."

Security. "We shall have to . . . find means of reconciling the necessity of change in a constantly changing world with security against the disturbance of the general peace through resort to violence."

Federation. "There are some who believe that the new order will only come through surrender in some measure by the nations of their sovereign rights, in order to clear the way for some more organic union. But if it is our hope to create a more truly international system out of independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over, we shall have to see to it that wisdom and good will combine for the immense task that will await us."