ABSTRACT
The strength of the demand for group freedom leaves open no other approach to international peace except that which is based on mutual recognition of the independence of states, small as well as great, within the framework of a growing body of international law and understandings, and sustained by the international organisations. New forces have appeared in international relations which, if wisely guided, can bring a great accession of strength to small states, and stronger support for their independence than has yet existed. The nation-state is still the best instrument through which individual freedom can be realised in most parts of the world, and denunciations of nationalism, in the abstract as distinct from particular excesses of particular nationalisms, are misplaced. The development of the United Nations into an increasingly effective instrument is a condition of the survival of humanity.
