The late
Professor Paul BOULET, of the faculty of Medicine of
Montpellier, whose death last July went unnoticed in
political circles, was a former parliamentarian and
Mayor of Montpellier ; whose inhabitants, at
his instigation, were declared World Citizens over 30
years ago. He maintained to the last his commitment to
the one-world ideal and, as a committee member of the
World Citizens (in France), he never lost any
opportunity to underline the fact that world problems
threatening the future of humanity require mundialist
solutions.
As a mark of appreciation now
we publish an extract written by Professor BOULET for
the "Somme Mondialiste".
FROM THE LOGIC
OF THE NATION-STATE TO THE NEED FOR
MUNDIALISM
(i.e. applied global values)
"If we reflect on the present world political
structure, we find that it consists of many units,
described as states or nations, which attach importance
to being recognized as indivisibly sovereign.
This notion of national sovereignty is their
distinguishing mark.
It means that each unit surrounds itself with
"unalterable frontiers". Within this create interior it
intends to remain in absolute control of its political
organization with the help of armed defense in the face
of other units, of diplomacy and of alliances.
History shows that this sovereignty of nations has
regularly led to an arms race, officially meant to make
war less likely. Nevertheless wars have continued to
recur, on an increasing scale and with ever greater loss
of life.
All this follows the logic of the system of
sovereignty. It is in fact quite logical, under this
system, that each nation or allied bloc should be afraid
of finding itself less armed than some other nation or
bloc. Again it is logical that each nation should want
its sovereignty respected by other sovereign nations.
Attempts to organize for peace, such as the League
of Nations or the U.N., have not reached their
target : they still implied an association of sovereign
states unable to escape the logic of the system. The same
would apply to a Europe of Nations or even to a unified
Nation of Europe.
The forerunners of mundialism were saying long ago
that it was not enough to condemn nationalism or
imperialism - the extreme conclusions of the systems -
but that the system itself was to blame. They preached
the necessity of organizing the world around new
assumptions. It appeared necessary to build, in some way,
a world system in which the units (whatever the name
given to them) would have their sovereignty limited and
mitigated by a supranational Legislature having
jurisdiction over the entire world community and
effective in those spheres involving a possible threat to
the freedom, well-being or even survival of communities,
not to say of humanity itself".
Paul BOULET
The
captivity of Dr Philippe Augoyard and national
sovereignty
World Citizens remark that, once more, the rights of
the human being are scorned by State laws.
Dr Philippe Augoyard, whose misconduct consisted in
helping the victims of the war fostered by the States in
the defense (or extension) of their sacred national
sovereignty, has been sentenced to jail for having tried
to protect the most simple human right : the right to
life.
The World Citizens stand by Dr Augoyard and ask for
his liberation.
They wish for Associations like "International Medical
Aid" "Médecins du Monde", "Médecins sans
frontiers", "Amnesty International" .. to become the
prefiguration of a real World Institution for the respect
of Human Rights, enjoying supranational statute, free of
State imperialism.
