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T
HE
OTHER DAY at a student as–
sembl
y,
Ambassador College,
Pasadena campus, a shocking
film
was presented. It showed, io full
color motion picture film, the horror
conditions in Biafra.
Seated beside me as my guest was
the managing director of a large mo–
tion picture corporation from Europe.
During World War
II
he had been
a prisoner at Buchenwald.
Before our eyes were living scenes
of starving, rib-showing children. We
were viewing sickening scenes of putre–
fying sores covering bodies dying
from horrible d.iseases resultiug from
malnutrítion. To most of us this was
a
moving, revolting, eye-opening pic–
ture. It produced emotions of shock,
horror, sympathy for the helpless vic–
tims. But
still it
was
a pictm·e!
We
were not, ourselves, in Biafra. We were
in an assembly room on our pcaceful
and beautiful campus. Surely we were
moved!
Our hearts went out to the
suffering, the dying.
It
moved us to
want to
do
something about it.
Yet, moving as
it
was, to us it still
was
a
pictme.
But to my gnest who
had experienced the horrors of Buchcn–
wald, it was stark REAUTY! To him
it was actuality - a living EXPERJ–
ENCE. He was once again
li'VÍ11g
in
the human slaughter-camp.
It
left him
sick in the stomach for twenty-four
hours.
There are two lessons here
I
want
our readers to grasp.
I
wonder if many
of you will.
First, one does not receive the full
impact of conditions merely from pic–
tures. To gain full comprehension, it
seems one must
be
there and actually
experience
it. This guest, like so many
others, had seco pictures of our college
campuses. But coming in person,
bei11g
here, is a different experience alto–
gether. Now it becomes REAL.
The Vice President aod General
Manager of one of the major radío
stations over which we broadcast the
WORLD TOMORROW was here a few
days ago.
"l
never did really UNDER–
STAND what you have here," he said,
"from the pictures. One has to
be
here,
to see all the happy, alert, smiling
students, to FEEL and experience the
atmospbere. Then it becomes something
altogether different."
That .is truc of a place of beauty,
peace and harmony, of progressive and
constructive action. And it is equally
true when it comes to grasping, in
aU
its horrifying reality, the very Ol'Po–
SJTE conditions that exist.
While you've been reading this far
in my
PersonaL
talk, at least FOUR
PEOPLE have dicd of starvation -
mostly
chíldren. That is a fact.
I
can
state it - you can read it ·- but you
have not really
E:XPERTENCED
.it.
You
don't fully grasp THE
MEANING
of it!
You probably have not become aroused
to action over
it.
The second point
I
want you to
grasp is this. This Biafra picture ended
with an appeal to viewers to send in
contributions for food and medicine for
Biafra.
The
film was moving enongh
to stir one's emotions to respond.
But the
BIG
POINT here is one few
will realize. The appeal was to treat
of the EFFECT, not the CAUSE.
To treat such an
eff~ct
- to send
food for the starving - to alleviate
temporarily the pain of disease - is
good. But it is not enough! To treat
of the CAUSE
ÍS
the
ONLY
CURE!
Even if all humanity is MOVED with
sympathy and compassion to the extent
of sending to Biafra great quantities
of food and medicine, that will not
rid the world of the
CRIME
!
Jf
that is all we do, we shall soon
have Two Biafras to alleviate, then
four, then ten, then a HUNDRED such
Biafras!
There are conditions just as bad
in
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OUR COVER
Major Gene.ral Yakubu Gowon, com–
mander of che federal Nigerian
forces, accompanied by member of
bis staff at p.ress conferencc in Lagos.
The thirty-one montb Nigerian civil
\Var is ended. The pain and sufferiog
will cootinue for maoy monchs and
years to come. War and world senti–
ment did not guarantee the lbos
indepeodence - only disease, mal–
nutrition and death.