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WHY No World Peace?
O
NE
or rhe wavs rhar men are
rn·ing ro bring abour
\X'ORLD
PEACE
berween narions is rhe
Olvmpic games. We recendy had a
sampk of rhar ·'peace" :n the 1972
gamcs in Munich, Wcsr Germany.
I rhink our readers nccd to know a
fcw ver)' significanr faces. For this is
jusc anorhcr cxample of whar's
\X'RONG
wich human efforrs for world
PEACE.
Ht-ads of governmenrs and
orhcrs have been rryi ng ro bri ng
abour world peace since rhe very
dawn of hiscory. Bur rhey don'r know
rhe
w
A Y
ro peace.
Thcsc Olympic games have bcen
going on cvcry four years - on and
oír - sincc somewhere closc ro 800
B.C. Thc origin of che Olvmpic
games is nor known, exacdy. They
have died out ar rimes - and rhcn
laccr beco revived again.
They use che symbol of rhe fivc in–
cerlocked rings - supposed ro be che
symbol of rhe spirir of brorherhood.
The general idea is rhat che various
nations scnd rheir finesr physical spcc–
imens of youch ro rhe games ro mect
in fricndship and brorherhood, dem–
onsrraring rhcir various phvsical skills
in sporrs. It's supposed ro bring che
narions of rhc world rogerher in a
friendlv meeting of
PEACE.
Bur
OOES IT?
Did rhe Munich
gamcs promore world peace? Lec me
PLAIN TRUTH December 1972
quickly review what acrually hap–
pened - and rhen rell you whar's
wrong wirh che whole idea - and
WHY
rhe games
CANNOT
promote
peace.
If you check che origin and spirit
of che games in rhc
F.ncyclopaetlia Bri–
tannicct.
you'U find rhat before che
conresrs opened, all rhe comperirors,
che rrainers and che judgcs swore
a
so/mm oath
ro kecp che compcririon
dean
and
fair
and ro givc
jmt
deci–
sions - and 1 undersrand rhar rhis is
srill done roday. Bur solcmn oarhs do
noc always mean much. The graceful–
ness and good sporrsmanship of che
conrcsrams - and rhc mcchod of
Allrod
Hennig- PLAIN
TRUTH
winning
were esreemed
equall)
with che vicrory irself.
le
was rhrough che etforrs of a
French Baron Picrre de Couberrin
rhat the Olympic games were revived
in our rime. He was nor an arhletc
himself, but a brilliant educator and
scholar. He believed rhar
one
of rhc
reasons for che
~lory
of che goldcn
age of ancicnr Grcece was rhe empha–
sis placed on phrsical culture and
frequenr arhletic fesrivals. He con–
cluded rhat norhing but
GOOD
could
resulr if rhe athlcres of all counrries of
che world were broughr rogcrhcr
once every four years on rhe friendly
fields of amarcur sporr,
tmmindfid
of
(Con/Íillted on page 47)