—On a World Scale
The Lever scheme recognises fully that this is no merely national problem, and that it will be necessary to persuade other great industrial countries to take similar measures to those adopted here. It suggests that international councils, with permanent secretariats, should be set up to secure international agreements, with a view to encouraging production and consumption in different
countries according to their abilities, and expanding internatie trade, regulating the stocks and prices of raw materials, raising th standard of living in undeveloped countries, and protecting countri that embark on anti-unemployment measures from unfair compe tion from those who do not. It is doubtless easier to suggest inter national plans for fighting unemployment than to secure co-operati in carrying them out. But we certainly cannot expect agreem among the major Powers for a concerted plan unless we can se enough agreement at home to carry out a positive domestic policy If this country, having agreed on its. own scheme, is able to so " there is our social security plan, in operation, and there is completed scheme for fighting unemployment," it will be in a mu stronger position for inviting the co-operation of the United Stat and other allied nations. Nor will it be forgotten that the who( fabric of international agreement in the economic sphere depend on success in getting agreement on the still more fundamental ques tion of security against aggression. A single international organisa Lion dealing with all these problems is essential.
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