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IN the first Montague Burton Lecture on “International Relations” delivered at Leeds on October 9, 1942, which has now been published by the University, Mr. J. G. Winant, attempting first to answer the question, why should barbarism be so rife in our modern world, suggested that one of the reasons was that in the years following the War of 1914–18 we neither tried to build a kindly world nor apportioned a sufficient percentage of national income to be armed effectively against aggression. Further, we did not give sufficient attention to either national or international machinery to allow the people effectively to meet social and economic needs within their own countries, or to give effective expression to the vast majority of people who wanted peace. Our consciences had also been blunted in the face of challenges to the rules of civilized life, and this slow decay of conscience occurred in a world of declining economic stability.
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International Relations. Nature 151, 554 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151554b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151554b0