ABSTRACT
We ask for democracy in the United Nations, although at times less than half the members are democratic at home; the nations that have signed up to the anti-slavery concordat are not all, in the strict sense of the matter, carrying that out at home. But for some curious reason, we have allowed the World Trade Organization to operate in circumstances in which we would not accept any such protection of free trade to operate at home. One has to say very clearly that is an area where governments, politicians, are clearly going to act, where most of us think they ought to act, but where they know perfectly well that they cannot act in the long run unless there is some kind of global agreement. Politicians increasingly say that is why people vote, that in any case it is like that. But if we give in to this argument internationally, we will be the first generation that actually says publicly, liturgically, in a sense morally, that this is the sort of world we want.
