ABSTRACT
THE history of government deals with the adaptation of institutions to the constant succession of new problems, which those engaged in operating them have to face, in the light of their traditional intellectual habits and methods of work. The governments of all the principal countries of the western world have been confronted, since the end of the Second World War, with the results of a radical change in the conditions of international life. The recognition of their interdependence for welfare and defence has been a thing of E>5F5>7B?GD8@1BD<I2531EC5?6D85VE3DE1D9?>C9>D851@@1B5>D9>D5>C9DI?6D85D8B51D from the alternative system of world communism, and partly because of the popular desire to transcend the threat itself and to establish the interdependence of nations on a world basis.
