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for public consumption. But the real
sessions are behind locked doors of
committee council chambers, and
there the savage battle for national
interests rages fiercely.
Already I see the clouds of World
War
III
gathering at this conference.
We learn of it in prívate talks with
delegates in hotel lobbies. The na–
tions can have peace - if they want
it. But they don't want it. They want
gain at the expense of others.
lnjustices to Minorities
Yes, the efforts to form a world
PEACE-ENFORCING govt-rnment here
are proving, in themselves, a contin–
uing contest, punctuated by con–
stant strife.
The firebrand here is Stalin's top
man, Molotov. I've attended press
conferences here where protesting
representatives of Lithuania, Latvia,
and Estonia cry out against grave
injustices forced on their people by
the overpowering Russian boot.
Three million from Lithuania have
been torn from their homes and
families and deported to Siberia!
In a prívate interview with Con–
stantin Fotich, pre-Tito ambassador
to the U. S. from Yugoslavia,
1
learned that
30,000
small-farm own–
ers in Yugoslavia have seen their
homes and farrns confiscated by
Stalin's puppet government. Sorne
of these remain on their farms as
slaves, sorne have been driven to
Siberia - many have been "liqui–
dated" - killed!
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do not see peace being gerrninated
here, but the seeds ofthe next war!
Success of the United Nations' ef–
fort for world peace requires com–
plete HARMONY between the Big
Three. But if America and Britain
are to achieve harrnony with Russia,
it is already apparent it will have to
be at the cost of justice in the
smaller Baltic and Balkan nations,
and Poland. And if the rights of
these helpless millions are to be
trampled upon with impunity as the
price of peace with Russia, THEN
WE
STILL HAVE NO PEACE!
There can be no real peace until
we have justice for all. To achieve
that, Uncle Sam must stand up as
the stern and determined champion
of the rights of these helpless
smaller peoples.
World Oblivious to
Russian Crimes
And to do that would sacrifice
harmony with Russia and risk an–
other war. Peace,
it
seems, can be
achieved only if Russia can eat her
cake and have it, too!
The world seems blissfully igno–
rant of the colossal crimes Russia is
committing against these smaller
nations she is occupying and annex–
ing. But
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have talked, here, with
officials and representatives from
these nations and learned, firsthand,
with shocked indignation, the true
and cruel facts.
There is the biblical statement:
"Except the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain that build it."
Here at San Francisco
1
see little
puny men in exalted positions set–
ting out to build a great house - a
vast edifice, a HIGH TOWER that will
reach to the HlGH HEAVEN OF PEACE!
But God is not building this house!
God has not so much
as
been in–
vited into this conference. At the
opening plenary session
1
was sur–
prised, as
1
looked down from the
press gaUery, to observe Secretary
Stettinius, instead of opening the
deliberations with prayer for God's
guidance, call, instead, for a minute
of silence for meditation! You see,
Mr. Molotov and the Russian dele–
gates do not believe
in
God, and if
Mr. Molotov were insulted, there
could be no peace! But neither can
there be peace without God!
The United Nations Conference
is producing nothing· but strife and
bickering and is destined from its
inception to end in total failure. Yet
world leaders are pronouncing it the
WORLD'S LAST HOPE - With the onJy
alternative ANNIHILATION OF HU–
MANITYI
Human Nature the Cause
of Wars
Peace "cannot be manufactured
here below." Man alone of God's
creatures can choose to serve and
love his fellow men. But he can
choose, also, to hate his fellow men.
In every roan a struggle constantly
persists between his higher faculties
and lower inclinations - between
obedience to law and servility to ap–
petites, passions and selfishness. Un–
less this lower nature is kept under
control, it breaks forth in violence
and disorder.
lt
is human to be sensitive about
securing one's own rights, while dis–
regarding the rights of his neighbor.
So men are tempted to lie, steal,
and
kili
in order to get what they
want.
With men left to themselves, their
baser inclinations unrestrained, with
selfishness given free play, there can
be no peace or order in this world.
Man's rnind and
will
are too weak.
The downward impulses of his
nature are too strong.
The two great commands - LOVE
toward God, and LOVE toward
neighbor - point the only path to
peace.
Without government over men,
therefore, we could not have peace
between individuals. But, as we rise
in the scale of human relations, the
problem of peace and good order
becomes more complex, yet the so–
lution remains the same. If the
maintenance of peace and order is
difficult between man and man, if it
is more difficult between citizen and
government, it is most difficult of all
between nation and nation! The oa–
sic conflict is the same as before -
human nature - but the stakes are
higher. In the international realm,
the selfishness of human nature
reaches its lowest level. Nowhere
else are the temptations to greed
and lust for power so nearly irresist–
ible.
National seljishness is more
than the sum total of the selfishness
of individuals.
Just as individual man cannot
control and resist the downward
pull of his passions and nature, so
these NATIONS, swayed by NATIONAL
selfishness greater than the sum to–
tal of the selfishness of all individ–
uals, cannot control these ambitioru¡
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