taking will need rest and on which its permanency will depend is a primary religious precept. What, then, can one suggest to Marshall Stalin? One cannot negotiate in a vacuum: a formula is essential. The dangers of inaction are often greater than mistaken methods chosen. Many of the great questions which confront the world today are interdependent. For example, one of the most essential is disarmament of certain nations to prevent a relapse into war- this can lead to reduction of armaments by all nations, curtailing the crushing burden of armaments upon the backs of the people. Another armament race would breed another war. The present war has drained the economic world to its dregs. All nations have suffered as never before. The burden of war debt will be borne by generations unborn. The need for control of armaments production and reduction seems obvious. The developed strength of Russia and its greater potential due to unlimited natural resources, a great and growing population, its victorious position in Europe, must be realized, and extension of cooperative arrangments already accomplished must be undertaken in the interest of world peace. Prompt creation of a world organization, even while the war progreses, will pave the way, future security being guaranteed, to solve many of the problems created by the present war and aid in earlier reconstuction and rehabilitation. |