Making Democracy and the World
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ARTHUR GRAHAM GLASGOW, M. E., D. Sc., D. Eng.
fOREWORD
The s ubject her e in treafed is th e mos t cC?m-
prenensi ve as well a s the most fundamental
01 objective s: l or it n ot only means crushing
victory in th is global war, Dut also c overs all
post-war problems 01 peace.
Few will dispu te the desirability 01 ade-
quate " machiner y " lor i mplementin g the best
c onclu sions 01 various studies made. But who
is to decide what is best? And who is to ere ·
ate, operate, and maintain such u machiner y ' ·
- peacelully adjusted to the contin uou s d e-
velopments 01 science and te chnology? Surely
n ot those w ho have p e rmitted ( or cau s ed)
two world-wars in one gene ration- bu t who
else?
The essay. starting with this iss ue and to
be con tinued in the n ext two issues, see ks to
i mprove the quality and authori ty 01 the c on -
trolling human element in national govern-
men t, on w hich all national and international
issues depend.
THE REVIEW presents this s e rie s 01 a r tie/es
l or the thought and consideration 01 the m en
01 our great Indu s try. No endorseme nt is made
on the plan s and s ugges tions ollered and th e
material is p r ese nted solely for s tudy and dis -
THE EDITOR.
c u s sion.
ABUSES DISCREDITING DEMOCRACY
I
OR over a century, marvelously accele-
rated in our twentieth century, science
and technology have been evolving potenti-
alities of a Better World; science by dis-
closing the hidden resources of nature, and
technology by converting such resources to
the use and disposition of man. Even space
has been broadly conquered as a barrier to
human intercourse. -
The substitution of unlimited "artificial"
power for brute and man power has vastly
eased and increased all productivity, and
might have raised the status of man from a
semi-brute to a demi-god, if these immense
captive resources had been utilized exclu-
sively for his welfare and evolution.
But, apart from localized conflict, world-
war has appliea and is now applying all
terrestrial knowledg(l:';,;il1d effort to the de-
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struction of man, of his accumulated works,
and even of the earth on which he should
happily dwell. The United Nations are de-
pleting their own natural resources, at max-
imum ra te and cost, to destroy not only the
enemy but also many occupied Countries-
for whose post-war rehabilita tion the United
States must make the chief external con-
tribution.
The destructive phase of this monstrous
sequence threatens the United States with
annual taxation approaching fifty billions;
while budgeted expenditure of $108,900,-
000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1944,
will soon require lifting of the new debt
limit to $210,000,000,000-and "we have
not yet begun- to fight!"
It is puerile to blame science and tech-
nology for the world's incredible misuse of
such wonderful potentialities. Where, then,
rests responsibility for thus crucifying the
world on this cross of knowledge? The re-
sponsibility is primarily on the world's
sta tecraft, which has been worse than stag-
nant while science and technology have
soared toward the skies.
What an indictment of their so-called
statecraft that nations, while acclaiming
freedom as more precious than life, should
have permitted one megalomaniac-starting
wi th a divided nation-to dominate the
national and individual lives of the whole
world!
The more fundamental questions are--
Why have these heaven-sent opportunities,
provided through science and technology,
been entrusted to such statecraft; why are
the navigators of our ships of state so ig-
norant, negligent, or inpotent concerning
their proper course, in the water of the
world? The answer, obviously, concerns
methods of government.
II
Practically, the world is now divided be-
tween two and only two forms of national
government-Unrestric ted Suffrage and Un-
restricted Dicta torship. If any other form
still exists, it is completely dominated by
one of these main groups. These two ide-
ologies are the opposite utmost extremes of
all possibilities in national government; allcl
extreme opposition is always dangerous.
In this case, involving the welfare of the
whole world, the representatives of each ex-
treme have declared, by words or actions or
both, that these two ideologies cannot exist
in peace in the same world; that one or the
other must be destroyed.
Patriotic -Americans abhor the Totalitari-
an State and all of its works. In that sys-
tem, the Creature, by unna tural means, en-
slaves its Creators; and is itself dominated
by a Dictator-inevitably a megalomaniac
with lust for aggrandizement. But hatred of
totalitarianism does not alter the deadly
menace of its aggression, now challenging
democracy in a war of survival.
On the other hand, this ha teful war
proves, as nothing else could prove, the
imperative need of eliminating or neutral-
izing the defects that make our current de-
mocracy so vulnerable. The one and only
way to defend democracy is to make de-
mocracy defensible. To that end, let us
consider the recent outstanding failures of
democracy.
III
In the First World War, raging from
August 1914 to November 1918, many na-
tions joined to make "The World Safe for
Democracy" -but, as seen below, with little
thought of making democracy safe for the
world:
The Imperial Government of Russia was
overthrown from within in 1917, and mod-
ern democracy attempted under leadership
of the eloquent Kerensky. But its power
was inadequate to withstand one Russian
refugee, conveyed secretly from Switzerland
to St. Petersburg by the German enemy-
he called himself Lenin.
Germany, as fruit of the First World War,
adopted modern democracy under the Con-
stitution of Weimar, prepared with Ger-
man thoroughness. But - notwithstanding
great relief from war indemnities, the post-
war flood of American and British cap,i tal
(never repaid), the withdrawal of all alien
forces from the Rhineland, and the return
of the Saar-the democratic structure could
not withstand the present Fuehrer, who had
emerged from the vast opportunities of four
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