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162 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. i (1932)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0162 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD IN ARRANGING the Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Academy, the officers chose as a general topic National and World Planning. Planning is not new, since some attempt at foresight and guidance has always been necessary. Recent developments, however, have forced us to see that more comprehensive planning has become a necessity. Our modern social machine is now too intricate for auto- matic operation. The Russian five-year plan has dramatized the sit- uation and stimulated our thought on a problem that would in any case have soon demanded our attention. A curious feature of this development is that national planning has become a necessity just at the time when strictly national planning is an impossibility. Any one country can proceed with its affairs in an isolated manner only so long as its contacts with other countries are moderate both in number and in complexity. In fact, detailed na- tional planning was not very important, or at least it was not vitally necessary, until world intricacy became so great as in these post- war years. Now no nation can proceed effectively without organized control and direction. But this national planning will lead only to chaos unless each national group makes proper allowance for every other. Isolated national planning will be disastrous. International adjustments are necessary. World planning has become imperative. As an introduction to this volume, which contains the Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting, it is peculiarly appropriate to in- clude a letter received from the late M. Albert Thomas. He wrote as Director of the International Labor Office, to which he had devoted the better part of his life, and his message is reproduced with only a few minor omissions of a personal nature. ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON March 18, 1932 Dear Dr. Patterson: Many thanks for your letter of 8 February. I am very glad indeed that you have in Mr. Magnusson, who is attending the Annual Meeting of your Academy on my behalf, a personal friend. I am sure he will derive much interest from your meeting. He will no doubt be able to contribute to the discussion which I see you are having on Public Works and Unemployment,-a subject in which the Office has been interested since it was set up-by informing the meeting of what we are seeking to do here in stimulating governments to prepare and send in programmes of public works which they wish to carry out and which can be co- ordinated in such a manner as to present international interest. This applies particularly to the improvement of communications in Europe. A Technical Committee of the League of Nations will shortly have to examine a certain num- ber of these proposals. Apart from those submitted by governments, I personally am taking a keen interest in schemes which individual economists or private organizations are evolving. These are as a rule much more ambitious. Mr. Delaisi, a French economist, aims at improving the standard of living of the sixty million or so peasants in Eastern Europe who now live almost outside the system of economic exchanges, by enabling them to receive a larger share of the sale price of their

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