Planning for World Order
Broadsheet No. 154 of P.E.P. (Political and Economic Planning) concerns Planning for European Order and World Order. It wisely distinguishes between the settlement of 3 Peace Treaty, which must and should be limited in its con- clusions, and that more general European or world settle- ment embodying what is known as " war aims " The broadsheet is concerned with the latter. Whilst regarding federation as the ultimate goal, it dismisses it as an im- mediate solution. The object is to strike at the causes which have produced totalitarianism, at the failures to adapt society to changed conditions and a changing social conscience before maladies become chronic. P.E.P. suggests that the essential conditions of European civilisation should be formulated, that a European Council of Premiers should be set up as a final referee on European policy, that national armies should be reduced to a police level, that there should be inter- national supervision of arms manufacture, and international control over raw material exports. It proposes that there should be a common European development budget of at least £m° millions a year, and points out that if the League had been richer its influence would have been greater. There are many special proposals, but all are governed by the idea of creating international agencies for one purpose and an- other, and concentrating loyalties in institutions of more than national scope. P.E.P. does not make it quite clear what part would be played by the League of Nations, though, of course, it envisages its continued existence.
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