Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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1) Present cultural units should be preserved with the utmost care and should have full autonomy in all local affairs. This means that a country such as Switzerland, Holland or Hungary should be preserved intact with its present boundaries, unless the people themselves in compact geographical blocks desire a change...
2) In remaking the map of the world there should be the least possible interference with old and well established political as well as cultural units. In other words, in the case of a country such as Belgium, the effort should be to encourage the Walloons and Flemings to cooperate...
3) The third principle is that smaller cultural and political units, together with large ones in some instances, should be combined into economic units large enough and powerful enough to stand on their own feet and to be free from the danger of being swamped by large neighbors. The U.S...
4) Political units in the form of large nations, or federations of smaller nations, should coincide as far as possible with natural economic units. This principle is difficult to apply and must frequently be held in abeyance because it conflicts with other principles. For example, Holland normally belongs economically with...
To achieve "many personal benefits and a broad cultural advance," Edwards also proposed "the further extension of birth control information, the improvement of the environment, and the accomplishment of distributional reforms in favor of families with children." In speaking of the necessity for creating a new environment, Edwards stated, "Those...