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The original United Nations charter recently on display in San Francisco
at the 25th anniversary meeting. Since 1945, more than
50
wars hove
erupted between this world's DISunited nations.
into this Conference.
At
the opening
plenary session I was surprised, as I
looked clown from the Press gallery, to
observe Sccretary Stettinius, instead of
opening the deliberations with prayer
for God's guidance, call, instead, for a
one minute silence for meditation! You
see, Mr. Molotov and the Russian dele–
gates do not believe io God, and if Mr.
Molotov were insulted, there could be
no peace! But neither can there
be
peace
without Gon!
The United Nations Conference is
producing nothing but strife and bicker–
ing, and is destined from its inception
to end in total faílure. Yet world lead–
ers are pronouncing it THE WORLD'S
LAST HOPE - with the ooly alternative
ANNII-IllATION OF HUMANJTY!
HUMAN NATURE
the
CAUSE
of Wars
PEACE "cannot be manufactured here
below." Man nlone of God's creatures
can choose to serve and !ove his fellow
men. But he can choose, also, to hate
his fellow meo. In every man a struggle
constantly persists between his higher
faculties and lower inclinations -
between obedience to law and servility
to appetites, passions and selfishness.
Unless this lower nature is kept under
control, it breaks forth in violence and
disorder.
It
is human to be sensitive about
securing one's own rights, while dis–
regarding the rights of his neighbor. So
men are tempted to Jie, steal, and to kill
in order to get what they want.
With meo left to themselves, their
baser inclinations unrestrained, with
selfishness given free play,
there can be
no
peace or order in this 1uorld.
Mao's
mind and will are too weak.
The down–
ward imp111Ies of
nal11re
are too stro11g.
The two great Commands - LOVE
toward God, and LOVE toward neighbor
- point
the
cm/y
path to peace.
Without COVERNMENT over men,
therefore, we could not have peace
between individuals. But, as we rise in
the scale of human relations, the prob–
lem of peace and good order bccomes
more complex, yet the solution remains
the samc.
If
the maintenance of peace
and order is difficult as between man
and man, if it is more difficult as
between citizen and government, it is
moJI
difficult of all as between nation
and nation! The basic conflict is the
same as before - (human nature) -
but the stakes are higher.
lo
the inter–
national realm the selfishness of human
nature reaches its lowest leve!. Nowhere
else are the temptations
to
greed and
lust for power so nearly irresistible.
National selfishlleJJ is more than the
Jllm-totnl of the selfishneu of
indit,iduals.
Just as individual man cannot control
and resist the downward pull of his
passions and nature, so these NATIONS,
swayed by NATIONAL sellishness greater
than thc sum-totJI of the selfishness
of all individuals, CANNOT CONTROL
THESE AMBITIONS AND LUSTS FOR