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ABOUT ME
My beliefs
Since 7th August 1945 I have believed - and felt - that only by abolishing war would the sort of world that I wanted be possible. I have devoted more or less the whole of my life to pursuing ways that seemed to offer the possibility and hope of that being achieved or, at the least, of preventing a third world war.
I summed up my ideas and beliefs of 50 years in World Citizenship and Mundialism, published in 1999 (the centenary of the first Hague Peace Conference), and most recently circulated a World Citizen Letter: “The route to world peace” (WCL 509 - February 2006).
Because of the essentiality of world citizenship, explicit or implicit, to the global political changes needed, for over five years I have been writing and distributing such World Citizen Letters.
This website therefore is by way of a summing up, including as it does history of family and professional interests with a combination of activities and experiences. Whether they can be made coherent I am not sure: but without doubt there is a basic coherence to them. My original certainty that the human propensity to fighting and battle is our chief weakness has not been overtaken, merely strengthened, by the now nearly universal recognition of the imminent threat of global warming.
My favourite books
• Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon (a pioneer world federalist)
• Memoirs of an Uncommon Attorney, by Reginald Hine
• The Wild Flag, by E B White (the author of Charlotte's Web)
• Brief Lives, by John Aubrey
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell Esquire
John Roberts
February 2006
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