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then you must tell the crudest and most stupid things. Hence any politico-diplomatic talks of either big four or five for peace will prove a mere moonshine for diplomatic talks are talks of interest and convince.
Economic Solution - But political evils are to a large extent supposed to be eliminated through democracy which has no place for autocratic whims for waging war. But if we are working upto a democracy in politics we must have a democracy in Economics.2 Most serious of the problems which claimed their attention were not political or territorial but financial and economic and that the perils of the future lay not in frontiers and in soveriegnties but in food, coal and transport.3 Political rights too have failed to provide a key to the millennium. 4 So political democracy if it is to survive must be interpreted in economic terms. So long as there are tigers in society there will be wars. 6 Permanent peace cannot come from the endless see-saw, but only from the elimination of the causes of enmity between nations. And in the present day these causes are mainly to be found in economic interest of certain sections and are therefore only to be abolished by a fundamental reconstruction?, of course not of the type of U. N. R. R. A., W. M. B., I. B. R. D., I. T. A., E. R. P. and their counterparts.
This fatal neglect of the economic factor by the peacemaker of 1919 was the main theme of Mr. Keyne's famous
1. Adolf Hitler : Mein Campf. 2. J. C. Kumarappa : Gandhian way. 3. J. M. Keynes : Economic Consequence of Peace, p. 134. 4. R, N. Kaul: Social Philosophy, 'Socialist Democracy'. 5. E. H. Carr : Conditions for Peace. 6. J. C. Kumarappa : Gandhian way. 7. B. Russell : In Praise of Idleness, p. 101. 8. I mean the Soviet Economic pact with Eastern demo.
cracies etc.
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