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Whats Behind the Little-Understood
ANGLO–
AMERICAN
MIRACLE
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In this American Thanksgiving
season, one
great nation–
the United States
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and
its cousin "family'' of nations–
the British Commonwealth- hove much to be thankful for .
Together they hove been the most powerful economic
and
political colossus ever to lead the world. What's the amazing
story behind this wealth?
S
!NCE
1800, two remarkable super–
powers have emerged on the
world scene.
These two powers carne to possess
almost every strategic sea gate in the
world . With only 7 percent of the
world's land and people, these two
powers combined to produce and con–
sume
OVER HALF
the world's wealth,
and nearly three fourths of its key nat–
ural resources and industrial products.
More than half of the earth's farm–
land fell into their possession. At their
height they ruled over one third of the
Jand area of the earth and one third of
its people.
Both have been leading economic and
military powers - one during the
1800's and up to World War I, the
other during the 1900's. One of these
powers has not been conguered for
more than
900
years
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The other has
This article is a product of the com·
bined effort of four Plain Truth
writers: an American nuw living
in
Britain, a Briton visiting America,
a
man of Chinesc descent living in
America and an American living in
America! From their respective back–
grounds, the Plain Truth staff explains
the signHicance of the Anglo-American
Miracle.
never
been conguered! One is the great–
est single economic and military power
ever to emerge on the world scene. The
other represents the largest empire
evec
assembled under one flag.
That one great empire is now
the
British Commomvealth of Natiom.
Sorne Shocking Facts
Let's take a brief look at the present
national power of the Anglo-American
brotherhood.
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In 1971, the United States will pro–
duce a
trillion-dollac Gcoss
National
Product (the annual worth of all goods
and services produced). That's nearly
$5,000 for each American man, woman,
or child. The rest of the nations of the
world will average less than two trillion
in combined GNP's, or about $500 per
person.
Russia's production is only two fifths
as much as America's. Japan, the sec–
ond-place free nation
in
GNP, produces
only one fifth as much. When you con–
sider per capita GNP, Sweden, Switzer–
land, and Canada produce slightly more
than
haif
as much as the United States
per person, and they are
the
only three
nations besides the U. S. producing
more than $2,000 per person. Most
natíons subsist on $200 or Jess per
person.
Such statistics can be made even more
meaningful. Think of the world's popu–
lation as a town of
100 people,
con–
sisting of 12 different
family
b11si1tesses,
each family consisting of 8 or
9
people.
One family of 8 - representing tbe
United States, Great Britain, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia and