ANGELL SHOWS NEED OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY

In speaking to a large and interested audience in the Living Room of the Union last night, Mr. Norman Angell, famous publicist and economic writer, dealt with the main factors of the social disintegration at present going on in Europe, and with America's concern in the process.

After being introduced by Assistant Professor Francis B. Sayre, Law '12, as one "who had done so much to further liberal thought," Mr. Angell began by showing that the population of much of Western Europe cannot be maintained at a standard of life necessary for social peace except by an international division of labor, an international economy.

There was such an economy before the war but it was based on private economic activities largely independent of state control or frontiers. This should be replaced by a consciously organized co-operation of states to indispensable economic ends. He went on to show the intense political instincts and economic factors--centering around nationalism and patriotism--that stood in the way of this move. England, for example, was considering her own protection, her "open seas" policy, in refusing complete Irish independence, which problem was in turn doing much to complicate Anglo-American relations.

"Coal and food are the fundamental necessities of England and the continent," Mr. Angell affirmed, and went on to show England's dependency on the outside world for food, and many other examples of the network of political and economic factors which runs throughout international policy.

Before ending his speech, Mr. Angell showed that at present the new tradition he had spoken of could not be developed partly because the world has not yet realized the futility of the assertion of political and military power, and partly because the world's very inadequate sense of interdependence has distorted both its political and social sense. The failure of preponderant military power to achieve its anticipated economic and social ends, revealed by the present situation of the Allied nations in Europe, may, if read aright, lead us to sounder social conceptions.