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handle is hein.ali/hrbor605441 and id is 1 raw text is: -THE NEED FOR A IEW DEFINITION OF IMJAN RIGHTS by John R. Ellingston A world society with so much power as ours must either be organ- ized to serve the welfare and the dignity of the individual human being or it will destroy itself. Our capacity for destruction grows and with it grows the pressure to destroy. Twice in our generation this pressure has spread the ash and death of war more widely over the globe. The. sack of Belgium in 1914-18 became in 1937-44 the sack of Asia and Europe. The killing of soldiers grew into the extermination of peoples. In World War II it needs but a night to raze a Coventry or a Cologne. No continent, no city, no shred of civilization will be safe from the 1,000-ton bombers of a Third World War. The pressures that have bred two World Wars and that will' in- evitably, unless we change them, breed the Third spring from our moral unpreparedness to use the mighty tool of industrialism. Indus- trialism reduces all nations to interdependence. No industrial power, not even the United States or Russia or the British Empire, is self- sufficient. For full employment and prosperity each must have access to raw materials and markets outside its own boundaries. For geo- graphically smaller countries) like the British Isles, access to these external resources is the condition of survival. Yet the nations ignore or deny this interdependence. Clinging to jealous tribal exclusiveness, they cut the world up into cells by tariffs, quotas,

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