{The Coming-of-Age of America [continued]}[6th January 1976]

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Think of that, and think how that is going to affect the trend towards close centralisation of Government and fragmentation of States. The close centralisation cannot survive; the fragmentation, in order not to ruin Mankind, must be incorporated within a large, loose structure recognising (and taking advantage of) the rules of territorial security in an atomic age, allowing fragmentation into identifiable territorial interest groups, and encouraging as much devolution of power and policy to (and beyond) those territorial interest groups as possible. That is what has just been described; and that is why the trends in America today – the full discovery of Watergate, the civilised contempt for Central Government, the reluctance to intervene militarily abroad – awkward though they may be in the short term, are signs of great hope: signs of a new awareness, a new maturity in one of the World's great powers, a first step to the World's survival.

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