ABSTRACT
The present-day world situation is such that one can only serve the interests of one’s country by acting in concert with other countries. Old-fashioned politics whereby a great nation maintained its supremacy or enforced its will on others on the basis of sheer power is a thing of the past, for every country. The age of national states has come to an end. Everyone must feel that a change has taken place, that an era has vanished and that a new age is dawning in which men will look beyond the borders of their own country and work in fraternal cooperation with other nations for the true aims of humanity. In a democratic, parliamentary state, in which the system of democracy is actualized down to the smallest community, every one of people bears responsibility. Nationalism, no matter where and in what form it appears, violates the divine order. It makes the state an idol—for every people its own state.
