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THE present state of party politics has given an impetus to non-party movements such as the New Political Fellowship organised by Mr. A. G. Pape, though it is perhaps premature to predict as the ultimate outcome the formation of a centre group in our Houses of Parliament. Party politics are apparently insufficient for the present emergency. The cooperative methods advocated by the New Political Fellowship, based on a definite planning of national and international life which is determined by an impartial study of the facts, not by political prejudice, are much more in harmony with the methods and outlook of scientific workers. The Fellowship, which already has a basis in some thirty countries, claims to break with useless traditions, and to substitute for the narrow, national jealousies a broad outlook and a spirit of co-operation which will enable existing international machinery, such as the League of Nations, the International Labour Office, etc., to function smoothly. However idealistic certain of the points in this policy may appear, they undoubtedly spring from the conviction that leadership must be based primarily on knowledge and no longer on prejudice or vested interests. In this the Fellowship can justly ask the support of men of science, without whose support its efforts indeed are likely to be largely sterile. It is only the solutions reached under the guidance of the calm impartial spirit of science that will have permanent value and authority in the era of co-operation which the Fellowship seeks to promote.
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New Political Fellowship. Nature 129, 308 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129308c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129308c0