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The research aims to discover the causal factors that make some nations more supportive of world order than others. Seven indicators of national support for world order are identified. Scores on them and on a combined index for 114 nations are obtained. Switzerland and three Scandinavian nations rank at the top, the United States is at rank 40, and the Soviet Union at 72. Five significant causal factors are identified, which yield a multiple correlation coefficient of .69 with the Index of National Support for World Order. The most powerful predictor is the degree to which citizens of a nation participate in international nongovernmental organizations. Less powerful are national levels of enlightenment, urgency of foreign trade, productivity relative to reference nations, and, negatively, population pressure.

In an obituary, personal memories of Quincy Wright are recalled from 1947 on. Quincy Wright was in charge of the Instit sponsored by the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation of the U of Chicago. Further contact with Wright occurred when he & the author became part of the staff of UNESCO in Paris. Wright's commitment to the cause of world peace is pointed out. His contribution, 'The Value for Conflict Resolution of a General Discipline of International Relations' started the Journal of Conflict Resolution on its way. 3 of the author's discoveries about Quincy's personality stand out: (1) Quincy was 'almost unbelievably modest.' (2) He kept his pioneering spirit to the end & showed great interest in what was going on at Michigan, eager to pick up leads that might take his own res in new directions. (3) He was young at heart, liked to meet young people, talk about their work & their plans, & give them the benefit of his counsel. He was generous of his time & knowledge. M. Maxfield.

An attempt to compare the values representing conceptions of the good society & the good world for Soviet & US elites. 6 elites are diff'iated on each side. 40 dimensions of value are used. The content of journals representative of orientations of each elite are analyzed for 1957-60. Tables show a distribution of value preferences according to positions on each dimension, as well as saliency of dimension for each elite. Results indicate little inter-societal overlap on values at the heart of ideological conflict over the good society, but much overlap on peripheral values & on those concerning the good world. AA.

Results of the Angell study of Soviet elites by content analysis (See SA 1019/C1257) are compared with the Dunham commentary on themes in Soviet creative writing (See SA 1019/ C1267). Much congruence is shown. It is tentatively concluded that emerging value preferences show themselves earlier in creative literature than in the periodical press. AA.

The title question,addressed to US citizens, is answered in 3 parts: (1) traditionally, it is the nat'l way of life, composed of `constants by conviction,' that is defended; (2) an obligation to defend `our bloc' has developed with the Cold War, & this bloc is in part homogeneous in value orientations, but in part quite heterogeneous; (3) there is an increasing need to defend `a world Amer's can live with.' This world will have to represent minimum demands by all the great powers. & can only be achieved by the cumulative development of intersocietal structure which can lay the basis for a world rule of law. AA.

The word "moral" gets a social scientist into trouble. A few years ago a colleague of mine strongly advised against my using it in the title of a monograph. On the face of it the term seems to some people unscientific; moreover, it is ambiguous. One has to explain tediously what one means by it. These would seem to be good reasons for avoiding its use altogether. They would be, except that no other word describes what I want to discuss.It is true of course that the term moral has to do with values. But it has reference to an aspect of human life, and one that can be studied objectively. Religious phenomena have not been thought unworthy of research just because there are strong value elements in them.