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What Our Readers Say

EXECUTIVE EDITORHerman 1. Haeh

EDITORH ERBERT W. ARMSTRONG

MANAGING EDITORArthur A. Ferdig

NO . 7

EditorsJer ry GentryGene H . HogbergPaul w. Kroll

August 1972VOL. XXXVII

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Personalfrom

He Can Who Thinks He Can

T HE OTHER DAY my personal assistantand Managing Editor of The P LA INTRUTH , Arthur A. Ferdig , handed me a copy of abook tha t had exerted influence on my life as a youngman many years ago - probably about 1910 .I t was one of t hose "inspi r ation books "

designed to inspi re young men w ith ambition , desireto succeed, and confidence. This particular book wastitled He Can Who Thinks He Can. I t was one ofmany such inspirational or "success" books authoredby Orison Swett Marden.

It had occurred to me, about eight or ten years ago , that weought to have that book in the Ambassador College library. As Iremember, our library staff found that the book was out of print,and they searched the second-hand book stores until they found acopy.

Seeing a copy of it brought back memories. It seems thateither there is no demand for such books toda y, or there are noauthors with the inspiration and ability to wri te them . I am surethat this particular book contributed its portion of ambition ,inspiration , confidence. Yet , reviewing it now, after more than 60years, brings the realization that in all those years I have learned afew th ings I didn't know then .

Th e book has no preface - no introduction. It begins withC 1: " 'I promised my God I would do it .' In September, 1862,when Linco ln issued the preliminary ema ncipa tion proclamation,the sublime act of the nineteenth century, he made this entry inhis diary - ' I promised my God I would do it .' Does anyonedoubt that such a mighty resolution added power to th is marvelou s man ; or tha t it nerved him to accomplish what he hadundertaken ?

(Cont inued on page 47)PLAIN TRUTH Augu st 1972

In This IssueIN THIS ISSUEWha t Ou r Readers

Say Inside Fron t Cove rPersonal from the Editor ..America Confronts the New

Soviet Challenge 2Why Were You Born? 14Advance News 20Europe - Superg iant of

The Seventies? 21Tapping Your Inner PowersIs No t Enough! 29What You Can Do 34The Biblical Revela t ion -Animal Brai n vs. HumanMind 35Hurricane Agon y ... ................ .... 41

John launois, Slacle Star

ABOUT OUR COVERThroug h autumn leaves rise the cupolas

of the Cathedra l of the Assumption atZagorsk, no rth of Moscow. Zagorsk wasrhe religious center of czarist Russia.Th ough atheism dominates today 's Sevi erthinking . present-day Sovie t leadership isactively pursuing an age-old goal of theRussian czars - world p reeminence. Th eU.S.S.R . has a lr eady ach ieved. as its firstgoal. a rough balance in strategic weaponswich th e Uni ted Stares and is moving on tocontest American world influence in ocherfields. Beh ind Mr . Nixon's Peking andMoscow summits l ies this growing chal lenge from the K remlin.


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. America Confronts.

THE NEW SOVIET


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by Gene H. HogbergColor P hot ography - John Launois , Black S ta r

Black & Wh ite Photography - Rober t Lebeck, Black Star

Now revealed the U. S. master plan for theseventies. And the Soviet counter effort to knockout the U. S. as the world's leading power.

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resu lt of th e arms treaties, an apparentroug h balance has been achieved between the two superpowers. Balancing the Sov iet Union 's numericalsuperiori ty in missiles (see box) is ag reater number of U. S. warheadscoup led wi th a presen t American leadin nuclear weapons technology . Mr.ixon's chief foreign policy cho

reograph er , Hen ry Kissi nger, toldAmerican newsmen in the President'sMoscow entourage that "no agreemen t [o n nuclear weapons] thatbrings disadvantage to either side canpossibly last."

Why th e TripW as N ecessary

Beh in d th e Pres ide n t' s intense"working summi t ," as he called it,was a sober realization. Unless something was done q uickly and decisively , the Uni ted States cou ld fallalmost irretrievably behind the Sov ietUnion in raw mil itary power.

T he Soviet Union, unrecognized infull by mos t Americans, had beenadding to its offensive nu clear arsenalat a prodigious rate . T he Sov iets, according to a recen t count, had beencons tructing abou t 250 land-based intercontinenta l ballistic missiles a year,along with submarine projectiles a t a

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A New R el at io nsh ip"Moun t Moscow ," it is now clear,

was the ultimate ob jective, afte r all.T he Presiden t 's earlier , an d largel ysymbolic, "side t rip" to the People'sRepublic of Ch ina - Russia's Communist archri val in th e wo rld served primarily to unla tch the imposing ga te of the Kremlin. And theu ltra- cautious Soviet leadersh ip , susp iciou s o f a W ashingto n-Peking understand in g, co nsidered Mr. N ixon'strip so vita l to its own nation al interest tha t it kept the door open despi testepped-up U. S. military act io n inNor th Vie tnam .When Mr. Nixon ret urned from

his Moscow trip wit h a bund le oftr eaties and ag reemen ts, he proclaim ed a " new relationship betweenthe two most powerful nat ions in theworld ."The most important area of agree

men t, of course, covers the mu tuallimi ta tion o f strategic weapons . As a

T HE CR ITICAL year 1972 may wellgo down in h isto ry as theYear of the Summit.In a period o f less than four

months, Richard M. Nixon scaled thelofty pea ks of Peki ng and Moscow inpu rsuit of his mu ch-d esired "g eneration of peace."


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STRUGGLE ON HOME FRONTTO CATCH UP WITH U. S.

The Soviet Union, so its leaders believe, hasnow achieved equality with the United States asa military superpower. As the se pictures andthose on subsequent pages reveal , much effortstill needs to be expended before the U.S.S .R.can catch up with the U. S. in other factors ofnational power, notably in the fields of agriculture and industry.Tha t the Soviets ar e making progress in thesefields , is borne out by a fact that should surprisemany Americans: In 1971, the Soviet steelindustry outproduced tha t of the United States- something no other country has ever done ,and something Sovie t economic planners havedreamed of accompl ishing for decades .


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ONEWAYTOBEAT THE SYSTEM . This ingeniousgentlema n is assembling his ow n ca r in the backyard o f an ol d h ou se . He would otherw ise haveto wa it mo re tha n 4 years fo r a new ca r (left).

have no t ye t be en li berated f rom h ardl work in the Sov ie t Union. The tremen-heavy losses o f m a np o we r d u rin g t he Sec

d W orld W a r is the p rinc ipal reason fo r scenesik e thi s (r ight) .

he farmers on the K ol kh oz es ( So vie t collectivefarms) ar e perm itted to cultivate a smal l piece o fland fo r thei r ow n use - an d keep a co w if theyish. Sov ie t soc iety is dependen t upon the pr o

uce from these small private plots fo r about on ethird o f t he nation 's entire food output (below).


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FIRST GRADERS in theU.S.S.R. start their firstda y of school (left).They're eager to learnas are youths everywhere. However, thereare few books waitingfor them - and thereis even a shortage ofpencils.Soviet farming (r ight)faces chronic shortagesas well. In an attemptto greatly improve livestock, the Sovie ts havearranged for huge purchases of surplus U. S.feed grains.

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rate of 128 a year. T he most disturbing trend of all, to Ameri can strategis ts, was the fairly rapid replacementof older Russian missiles with thehuge SS-9's, wi th their wallop ing 25megaton payload capability - farheavier than the U. S. MinutemanICBM . There have even been reportsof newer and bigger missiles of anawesome SO-mega ton capacity.

Meanwhile , for five years, theUni ted States had added nothing toits land-based offensive missile force,except some technological improvements. Only the mobile submarinetask force, equipped with " Polaris"missiles, and now the newer "Poseidon " missiles, had been steadily imp rov ed . This developm ent wascoupled with the beginning of a limited antiballistic missile (ABM) system.

The massive Russian bu ildup ledU. S. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickoverto state that " there has no t been anarms race - the Soviets have beenrun ning at full speed all by themselves." Ominously, Rickover addedbefore a New York audience: "Theblunt si tuat ion facing us is that Soviet Russia is doing all the th ing s anation would do if it wanted to bethe number one military power withclear, unequivocal superiority."

Obv iously something had to bedon e - bur what ? Mr. Nixon revealed in his speech before the combined houses of Congress on June 1,immediately after his Moscow trip,th at he had "studied the strategic balance in g reat detail " with his senioradvisers for "mo re than three years."T he Chief Executive further addedwhy getting the Soviet s to agree to aslowdown in the nuclear missile racewas so important :

"From th e standpo int of th eUnited States, when we consider whatthe stra teg ic balan ce would havelooked like, later in the 70's if therehad been no arms l imi tati on , it isclear that the agreements forestall amajo r spiraling of the arms race one which would have'wo rked to ourdisadvantage ."8

Shocking Panel ReportAs early as 1969 , President N ixon

had appointed a 16-man panel of leading private citizens - to avoid any entren ched Pent agon influence - toassess Amer ica 's securi ty position.Their leng thy report , issued March,1971, warned tha t "the convergenceof a number of trends indi cates significant military balan ce agains t theUnited States and in favor of the Soviet Union. . . . If these observabletrends cont inue, the U. S. will become a second-rate power incapableof assuring the future security andfreedom of its people."

Perhaps most significant of thecommittee's observations was thi s:" N eit her the facts concerning thesetrends nor the ult imate danger is generally understood by the publi c,which for the most part remainsuninformed and hence apathetic."

The more the President and hischief foreig n affairs adviser, HenryKissinger, studied the national security issue, the more the only choiceconfronting them became obvio us. I twas to tie down the Soviet government to an arms limitati on agreement, and in addition to th is prim arypoint , to attempt to b ind the Sovietsin so many directions to the U. S. increased trade, joint space ventures,combined scientific , health and ecological research, among others - thatMoscow would find it extremely di fficult not to cooperate with theUnited States.

Given the bitter Vietnam experience, the Ame rican populace wasclearly in no mood to accep t a costly,rapid buildu p in strategic weapons tomeet the Soviet challenge head-on.Besides, the general public had beenlulled int o a false sense of securi ty bythe so-called mutual overkill syndrome and the belief tha t the nation'sroving missile-equipped submarineswere all that was necessary to deter apreemptive attack.

Mr. Ni xon and his advisers, however, knew bet ter. Th rough detailedintelligence, they realized that the po-

tential enemy was steadily gear ing upto the position where it could, if itwanted to - assuming the very worstin the Sovie t mot ivation - str ikefirst with a massive nuclear blow.Then it could pro tect its key positions from a counte rattack through asophisticated antiballistic missile defense net work - and still hav eenough fi repower left to admi nister afinal coup de grace against a virt uallydefenseless Un ited States.

At the very least, the Sovie ts, werethey to become the predominant military power, would be able to renderthe United States diplomatically im potent on the world scene. The respected Center for Strategic Studies inW ashington , D .C. revealed in an inten sive study that "achieving U. S.recog ni tion of Sov ie t sup eriori tywould permit the U.S.S.R. to pursuea more aggre ssive foreign policy, todemand concessions from the Uni tedStates on many issues long in contention, to inhibit U. S. resistance tocommunist inspired or exploited warsof liberation, to fracture Western alliances, to achieve more dom inantcontro l over the inte rnationa l commun is t movemen t and to a ttaingreater support from the unalignedth ird world."In such a superior position, the Soviets could have their own selfish wayvirtually anywhere in the world without having to back dow n beforea superior United States, as they didin the Cuban missile crisis a decadeago . (In fact, the Havana hum iliationmarked the moment when the Sovietsfi nally determined to catch up withAmerican military power. At thattime , only ten years ago , the Un itedStates enjoyed a two to one missilesuperiority and an overwhelming naval ascendency on the high seas.)

Since the American public was inno mood to buy an alarmist messagein the early seventies, the Presidenttook what he felt was the only otheralternative - to go dire ctly to the Soviet Union and attempt to engineer ahalt , or at least a slowdown , in therun away Soviet missile buildup . I t



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was felt that the Strateg ic Arm s Limitation Talks, begun 2 Y.2 years ago atthe behest of Washington , wouldbuy, meanwhile, precious t ime for theUnited States - time to expl oitAmerica's present technological leadover its formidable foe, while puttingthe brakes on newer and more powerful Sovie t missile emplacements .

The NuclearScore Sheet

Struggle for World SupremacyIn his June 1 speech before Con

gress, televised nationwide, PresidentNi xon assured the Ameri can peoplethat, as a result of SALT, and continuing Ameri can vigilance, "no poweron earth is st ronger than the UnitedState s of America today. And nonewill be stronger than the UnitedState s of America in the future."But the mood of America is definitel y changing. The nation 's desireto be "number one" and to be theflagbearer for freedom in a largely totalitarian world is vanishing. Twen tyseven years of cold war with a surly,patient compet ito r has left its markon th e mass American psyche. Thegrowing appeal to turn the nati on inward to solve its mounting domesticcrises is the most dramatic mani festation of America's polit ical temperature today. The increasing trendwithin the Un ited States to "dropout" of the world does not changethe unpleasant facts of life in roday'swar-threatened world .I t has never been the habit of

Americans, so blessed with their fabulous national riches, to think verymu ch abou t such concepts as "powerpolit ics" or " the balan ce of power."These are though t to be age-old"European" ideas, harkening back tothe time of the cza rs, and Bismarck.Whether the United States likes itor not , it is still in a life-or-deathcompetition wit h the Soviet Union.Th e Soviets are determined to

achieve equality with the UnitedStates in edu cation , industry, welfareand per capita weal th ; in outer space,sea power and land power. They suffer from a severe inferi ority complex.

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T H E MOST important area ofagreement reached at the Moscow Summit involved the mutuallimitation of strategic weapons. On etreaty limits both the United State sand the Soviet Union to 200 antiballistic missiles - 100 missiles at eachof two sites. Each nation will be permitted to defend its national capitalplu s one of its land-based offensivemissile-launching sites.Alon g wi th the ABM accord, an

accompan ying "executive ag reement" freezes fu rt he r developmentof offensive ballistic missiles - both

., land-b ased and sea-based - for fiveyears. T agreement , which gu arantees a three to two missile ratio infavor of the Soviets, dismayed thePresident 's more conservative critics.Th e U. S. missile arsenal is frozen atthe level it reached five years ago 1,054 land-based ICBMs plus 656submarine-launched ballistic missiles- a to tal of 1,710 missiles. Th e Soviet Un ion will be allowed to comp lete m iss il e s n ow un derconstruction, giv ing the Russiansultimately a to tal of about 2,350missiles (over 1,600 ICBMs plusaround 740 SLBMs) .O ffset ting the numerical Russian

advantage, however, is the fact thatthe Uni ted States will continue tomaintain more than twice as manydeliverable nu clear warheads as theRussians - 5,700 to 2,500. Becauseof its early headstarr in the development of the MIRV - "multipleindependently targeted re-entry vehicle" (meaning several separatelytargeted warheads atop each missile)- the United Srares is believed to

possess a two- to five-year lead innuclear weapon technology over theU.S.S.R.The position of U. S. strategic

arms advisors is this: Since theUnited States presently enjoys a virtu al monopoly on the high ly sophisticated MIRV systems, it can afford,for the moment, to let the Sovietshave more missile launchers andeven more tota l megatonnage -andin shee r mega tonnage, the U.S.S.R.presently has at least a 3 to 1 edgeover the United States! Also, theUnited States outnumbers the Soviets in long-range strategic bombers, 530 to 140.Thus the qu estion of wh ich su

perpower at the present time is inthe lead in the arms race, or who"won" or who "lost" in the firstround of the Strateg ic Arms Limitation Talks is rather academic.The arms race has slowed down

- or rather shi fted course. Qual;-ta tiue improvement of the strategicarms permitted on bo th sides is no tcovere d by the arms agreements.Neit her is th e developmen t ofwholly new weapons systems - suchas lasers.The United States will attemp t to

maintain its lead in techn ology andweapons development - againstgrowing in tern al pressure to cutback military expenditures, including those for research and development.The Soviet Union, now officially

recognized by the United States asits nu clear equal, will be pushingahead rapidly to close the technology gap.

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THE SOVIET WORK-ER'S lo t has steadilyimproved. He nowworks a five-day, 41hour week with anaverage vacation ofone month . The average mon th ly factorywage is 127 rubles- abou t $154(right).

Love, Soviet style has its unique complications, the most seriousone being the country's severe housing shortage. Young coupleshave to wait fo r at least 5 years fo r an apartment of their own .Many marriages break up fo r lack of privacy (lef t) .

Leisure with a purpose . Probably no other government in the worldspends as much money on the arts and culture . The emphas is isstrictly on organized le isu re - activities approved by the staterather than individualized pleasures so common to societies of thefree world (below).

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Aging Soviet leaders, most of themhaving had perso nal involvements inthe early years of the Russian Revolutio n, are still very mu ch imbued withthe belief that Communism is theinevitable "wave of the future" -thatit will ul t imately triumph over "decadent capi tal is t powers" such as theUnited States.

Based on his face-to-face talks withthe Soviet leaders , Mr. N ixon observed that "there still are deep phi losophical differences" between the twosuperpowers. T hese differences are notlikely ever to be bridged, given theclosed, regulated society of the SovietUnion.

These facts represen r the reali ty oftoday's complex interna tional situation. And despi te the desire on thepart of many Americans that their nation should no longer be the "world'spoliceman," the fact is, in thi s harshworld of tod ay, the unasked-for responsibility for world peace still restsupon weary U. S. shoulders.

The Technology RaceWhether the Soviets , contrary to

their past history, remain faithful tothe terms of the new arms limitationagreements is yet to be proved. Burassuming the y remain tru e to theirword , the whole area of qualitative,technological improvement of nuclear forces on both sides takes cent erstag e. Improved nuclear technology isin no way proscribed by the SALTTreaty and agreement.

The present leaders of the UnitedStates would not have sig ned theSALT pacts if they had not been confident that the U.S.A. could maintainits technological superiority over theRussians. But st rangely, the techno log ica l race is where the UnitedStates could ultimately come out onthe short end . Ameri ca's present twoto five-year technology lead over theUSSR could vani sh quickly.

Th e publication Aviation IlI'eek andSpace Techn% g)' reports that the "Soviet Union is pu shing to achieve aclear technological-military superiority over the U. S. by 1974-75."12

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Little wonder that famou s nu clearphysicist Dr. Edward Teller recentl ypro claimed that " today we are not inan arms race . . . we are in a technological race."

The Soviet s will never be satisfiedunl ess or unt il the y catch up with theUn ited States in "M IRVs" - multiple independen tly targeted re-entryvehicles. And MIRVs atop the alreadyvastly more powerful Soviet missileswould mean a distinct military advantage for Moscow - unless U. S. scicn-

rists break in to entirely new fields ofweapons development.

Compounding America's pro blem,however , is the g rowi ng backlashagainst technology in general in theUnited States. Whereas technology isg reatly respected in the Soviet Unio n,both science and technology are beingblamed for much of America's domestic ills, from pollution to the dehumani zing of life. Many Americanscient ists fear a dramatic curtailmentof both private and public funds for



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research and development is in thenear offing . Joseph c. Harsch of theChristian Science Monitor puts thewhole techn ology issue in its properperspective:

"Obviou sly, the weapons agreement would be a military disaster forthe United States if the Russians usedthe next five years to go ahead inweaponry while the United States didnothing or little. But the UnitedSta tes will have the best of the bargain if five years from now it has keptPLAIN TRUTH August 1972

the advantage it has now by continuing to move ahead in quality."

The question is, wi ll the U.S.A. determine to keep that advantage?

T emporary PeaceThis ag e, whi ch has experienced

more than 50 major conflicts since theSecond World War, is experiencing atemporary but hig hly illusory peace.

The "new relationship" betweenthe Soviets and the Americans meansthat international relations will perhaps , for the next two to three years,shift out of the icy cold-war atmosphere in to the avenues of more classic international dipl omacy.

Th e focus of world affairs will consequently and steadi ly shift back toEurope from Asia, with the exceptionof the growing role played byJapan .

Immediately after the MoscowSummi t, talk was revived of earlyhopes for convening the much-discussed " European Security Conference," a Soviet dream for nearly twodecades to solidify thei r hold on Eastern Europ e and expand their influence in the W est. With the W estGerman government 's ratification ofits nonaggression treat ies with Polandand the Soviet Union , the new FourPower Agreement on Berlin , and nowthe Moscow Summit agreements, thetrend toward an East-West de tente inEuro pe is definitely a dipl omatic waveof the future .

Frustrated EuropeThe Moscow Summ i t h ad a

profound impact upon the nati on s inW estern Europe . Wh ile dut ifully applauding any moves toward a relaxation of tensions between Washingtonand Moscow, the most general tru ereaction among influenti al leaders ofWestern Europe toward the Summitwas one of political frustration .

The political weakness of W esternEurope was again po intedly displayed.Agents of the two superpowers negotiated over the heads of the Europeansin attempting to achieve what oneobserver called "a more stable and secure balance of terror."

The fact remains, said on e source," that Europe cannot determine its future for itself."

One of Europe's most prominentstatesmen, Belgium ' s Paul -H enriSpaak, commented on the Ni xonvisit: "What is obvious is that Europeis more and more absent from the international scene. This means that itsfuture migh t be determined one daywithou t her having anyt hing to sayabout it."

The Moscow Summit may wellpro vide the impetus for W esternEurope to make determ ined efforts toachieve unity and renew its strengthin the econom ic, political and defensefields.

The Challenge of Our AgeAs the world heads into a new

time of uncertainty, it is certa in thatthe United States, as it concludes thesecond century of its nat ionhood , willbe meeting the most severe challengeever to its world posit ion.

The challenge will come from allfi elds, notably militarily and ideologically from the Soviet Union, and increasingl y in the economic field fromW estern Euro pe and J apan.

Germany's " Iron Chancellor" Bismarck, a balance-of-power activist inhis heyday of power a century ago,looked somewhat enviously at thewealth and gro wing power of theUnited States, and its "splendid isolation" from the turmoil of the European scene. In one ra ther crypt icobservation, he proclaimed that "Godlooks over dru nkards, infants - andthe Uni ted States of America."

Despi te this sarcasm, Bismarckwasn't far from the truth.

Long-time readers of this magazinehave known that Americans trulycould, if they only, understood theirnational heritage, rely upon AlmightyGo d for their national protection.

O ur free book The United Statesand British Commonwealth in Prophecyexp lains how the United States acquired its fabulous wealth and power- and why this position is nowthreatened as never before.

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WHYW ERE YOU BORN?

Is there any PURPOSE for human life? Does life,after all, have real MEANING you have neverrealized? You need to know!by Herbert W. Arms trong

SYNOPSIS OF PART IT AST MONTH we compared the twoL possibilit ies of orig i ns. Eitherhu manity was crea ted by an in

telli gent and Almighty Crea tor for adefinite PURPOSE - or human li fe developed by the process of evo lution .

We discovered tha t biologis ts andpropon en ts of the doctrine of evo lution fail to show any de finite purposefor th e presence of the human familyon thi s planet. N either do they tell uswhy man is ashe is - possessing awesome intel lectual powers, yet ut terlyhelpl ess be fore the onslaug h t ofworld problems.

Nor, for that mat ter , have thewo rld' s religions so far given any satisfactory exp lana tion.W e discovered th at the book called

-th e Holy Bible claims to be the revelation of basic, necessary kn owledgefor ma n. In th e first two chapters ofthis book, we discovered th at the Cre ator tells us clearly and emphaticallythat man is neither an animal nor animmo rt al soul and th at man wascreated to be governed by mind , no tins ti net.W e discovered how the first

hu man beings mad e the very first scientific experiment - they took toth emselves the prerogatives of deci ding what is GOOD , and what is EVIL.14

In so doing , the y rejected the Godcente red WAY of God 's spiritua l Law,which would have led to a wo rld ofpeace, prosperity and happiness. Th eyrejected the vita l missing dimensionin human knowledge.

PART IIT HERE IS mu ch vital, bas ic andimportant kn owledge BEYONDTHE POWERS OF MAN TO DISCOVER! Such impor tan t knowledge aswha t man IS, WHY man is - WHY hewas pu t on earth and for what PUR POSE.

And if there is PURPOSE, wh at isthat purp ose? And HOW may we attain it?W hat is THE WAY to PEACE? All

nati on s seek and str ive for peace yet non e find it - th ey have war!

What are th e TRUE VALUES in life?T his worl d pursues the FALSE !

Those are the most basic and impor tant th ings man needs to KNOW .Yet he may search for th e answers invain . He can KNOW them ONLYthrough revela tio n.Such questions as: How the ear th

came; when it came - how old it is;how old is human life upo n it - themys tery of or igins - abso rb the t ime ,thought, research and th inking of scientists, philosophers , historians - yet

th ey can come up only wi th guesses ,theories, hypothes es - but NO PROOF th e definite knowledge they couldknow ONLY by revelation.In tak ing to themselves th e forbid

den fru it, the first humans took tothemselves th e de termination of whatis GOOD and what is EVIL. I repea t in so doing, they rejected the fact tha tGod's living, inexorable spiritual Lawis THE WAY of GOOD - the CAUSE ofall GOOD - and its transgression THEWAY OF EVIL - the CAUSEof all evil.Since they and humanity in generalafter them have take n to themselves thede termination of what is GOOD , theyof necessity have followed THE WAYcontrary to Go d's Law. T hey have fol lowed the way that has produced allthe vast mounta in of EVILS that hasdescended on th is sick, SICK wo rld !T hey made themselves competitors

of the living GOD. That is why it iswritten in Romans 8 :7: "The carnalmind is enmity [hostile} against God:for it is no t subject to THE LAWaI'GOD, nei ther indeed can be."

W ha t IS th eMissing D im ension?

So wha t, then, is the missing di mension in all knowledge ? It is revela-tion from GOD!For even though rejected by the

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by manki nd in ge ne ral - God didbequeath to mankind H is revelation ofbasic knowledge. We have it IN WRITING! The Holy Bible is that revelation. It contains history, instruction ,revelati on of basic knowledge , andprophecy.

It does not contai n ALL knowledge. It conta ins that basic, foundational knowledge otherwise inaccessibleto man.'

What , th en , is WRONG withknowledge production tod ay? T hemost vi tal dimension is missing ! Ihave said that erro r ge nerally comesfrom assuming a false premise, takencarelessly for gra nted with ou t pro of,and building on that premise. Andwhen th e basic hypothesis or premiseis false, the en tire structure built uponit top ples with it !I have said that the too ls of mod

ern science are observation, experi-mentation , and reason. Are those too lswrong? NOT AT ALL! The error comesfrom rejection of revelation. For revelation is the true starting premise.W hen man substitutes his own falsehypo thesis, the most vi tal dimensionin the knowledge production is missing !

God 's Word - H is InstructionManual for mankind - is the FOUN DAT ION of ALL knowledge. It is NOTthe sum to tal of knowledge. It is thefoundation - the tru e premise - thestart ing poin t - the concept that directs the approach to the acquisitionof fur ther knowledge.

Man SHOULD ProduceKnowledge

Go d INTENDED for man to produceadditional knowledge. He gave us thebasis - the foundation - the premise - the concept. Bu t He also provided us with eyes with which to observe , wit h hand s and feet to explo reand measure , with means to producelabo ratories, test tu bes, and means ofEXPERIMENTATION. He gave us awesome MINDS with wh ich to THINK.

God in tended man to use observation , experimen tation , and humanreason . He sup plied us with the basisPLAIN TRUTH August 1972

- the foundation - the start in therigh t direction, with the right concept . But our first paren ts rejected themost vi ta l dim ension in all knowledge . And mankind has continued toreject the very FOUNDAT ION of allknowledge . Kn owledge productionhas been operating with a foundation- based on false premises and erroneou s hypotheses.

Th at is the reason human knowled ge production has failed to solvehumanity's problems, and to cure theworld 's ills.Manufacturers of mechan ical or

electri cal appliances send along an inst ructio n manua l with their product.The Bible is our Maker's InstructionManu al whi ch He has sent alongwi th the produ ct of His making humanity.Six thousand years of human mis

ery, unhappiness and evils ought toprovid e sufficient PROOF for thosewilling to see, tha t humanity, startingwith our first parents, rejected themost vital dimension .

Compelled to ChooseNow remember , I said CREAT ION

IS STILL GOING ON. Adam was freelyoffered etern al life. He was compelledto make a choice. Had he (and ofcourse Eve) made the choice to BELI EVEGod - accept knowledge fromGod, instead of taking to themselvesthe determ ination of the knowledgeof wha t is good and wha t is evil - heand Eve could have taken of the treeof life.

Th at tree symbo lically representedthe Hol y Spirit of God . Taking itwo uld have impregn ated wi t hi n themGOD- life - SPIRIT-life. Then Adam'screation wou ld have been completedwithin his lifetime. He would havebeen changed from mortal to immortal - from physical, material composition even as God is!

But the first humans rejected basicrevelation of knowledge from Go d just as humanity has done ever since .They rejected THE WAY God set inmotion to CAUSE peace, prosperity,happiness and joy. They limited the

acquIsItion of knowledg e to the irHUMAN minds.

The CAUSE of All EvilsAnd ever since man has tried to go

his own way - governing himself living th e "GET" way, with unconcern for the good of others. Andman 's way has resulted in all themountain of evi ls that has befallenthi s wo rld.Therein is the explanation of all

the illiteracy, the poverty, the disease,the filt h and squalor of the worl d'smajority.Therein is the explana tio n of the

EVILS that exis t in the "m ore advanced" and "developed" areas of theworl d. They have education - bu twith its grea t, vast missing dimension! Education with no knowledgeof the PUR POSE of life. Educatio n tha tcan produce computers, fly men tothe moon and back, bu t cannot solveman 's problems.

And why? Because the problemsare SPIRITUAL and man has rejectedthe knowledge of God 's SPIRITUALLAW - the WAY of life that wou ldCAUSE peace and un iversal GOOD!

But has God left stricken humanity to its fate?By no means.God 's SPIRITUAL CRE ATION IS still

In progress.T he T ru e Answer toT hese Questi ons

The real answer was brought ou tby Job. "If a man die , sha ll he liveagain?" Job asked - and answered :"All the days of my appointed timewill I wait, till my change come. Thoushalt call, and I will answer thee: thouwilt have a desire to the work o thinehands" Oob. 14:14-15).T he latter part of his quotation,

most often overlooked, is the key tothis whole riddle. Read it aga in!"Thou wilt have a desire to the work

of thine hands".'Study that ! J ob knew he was

merely the wo rk of God's hands ,merel ya piece of divine workmanshipin the hands of the Crea tor , merely a

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piece of plastic day in the hand s ofthe Master Potter.

We Are God 'sWorkmanship

The prophet Isaiah explains thi salso : " But now, a Lord, thou art ourfather; we are the clay, and thou ourpotter; and we all are the work of thyhand " (Isa. 64 :8) .And in call ing us forth fro m the

grave, in the resurrectio n, God is having a desire to finish the work of Hishands. The model , from which thefinished sp iri tual product is to bemolded , is material su bstance human clay.In the creation of Genesis 1, God

formed and shaped man physically,into God's image. But we do not, ashumans, have the spiritual CHARAC TER of the perfect Go d. During thislifetime, for those whom God calls, ifthey yield and respond , God begins tore-form and shape us spiritually, whilewe become mor e and more like Himin spiritual character.For thi s grand and glorious pur

pose, God has marked ou t a durationof seven thousand years. Each 24-hourday of the Genesis 1 creation was atype of the seven millennial days ofthe spir itual creation.Except for those whom God spe

cially and individually calls duringthe first six millenn ial days, Godleaves man to write his lesson inhuman experience. Man made theCHOICE of relying on himself underthe sway and influence of Satan . Godis allowing man to DEMONSTRATE beyond question his helplessness without God's Holy Spiri t - to livein a way that produces peace, happiness, and universal abundance.

Or, the parallel : God is allowingSatan the six millennial days for hislabor of decept ion and evil. And onthat seventh millennial day, he shallno t be allowed to do any of h is evilwor k. He shall be imprisoned , while .the living Christ brings TRUTH andSA LVATION to the world.16

What Is Redemption?So now let's look briefly at re

demption. Wh at is it ?" By grace are ye saved through

faith . . . for we are his workmanship,CREATED in Christ Jesus unto GOODWORKS, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them"(Eph. 2:8-10). Notice, there are goodworks to salvation.

The "we" in N ew Testament language always means Christians those trul y converted. W e, then, areGod 's workmanship. Yes! "Created" nowbeing created - to what objective- to what purpose? Note it! "U ntogood works "l Unto perfect spiritualcharacter!

Now Paul here is no t speaking ofAdam's creation, six thousand yearsago. He is speaking of Christians,NOW, being created - untogoodworks.We are H is workmanship - the Creator is still creating. He is molding,fash ioning , cha ng ing us, t ransfo rm ing us to H is own noble, righteous, holy, spiritual character. Yes,creating in us this perfect characterSalvation, then , is a process!

The Purpose ofOur LivingBut how "the god of th is world"

(II Cor. 4 :4) would blind your eyesto that ! He tries to deceive you intothinking all there is to it is just "accept ing Christ" - with "no works"- and presto-chango, you' re pro

"saved."But the Bible reveals that : "He

that shall endure unto the end , thesame shall be saved" (Matt . 24:13) .

"Therefore if any man be in Christ,he is a new creature" (II Cor. 5:17) .Yes, a NEW CREATION !"And be renewed in the spirit of

your MIND; and that ye put on thenew man, wh ich after GOD IS [being]CREATED in righteousness and true holi-ness " (Eph . 4 :23-24).It all begins in the mind . Repent

.ance , the first step in salvation, is achange of mind. We believe in themind. The receiving and indwelling

of the Holy Spirit is a renewing oj themind. Gradually, th rough Bible study,learning to live by "eve ry W ord ofGod ," being continually corrected,keeping in cons tant prayer, the verymind of Go d is placed within theyielded man. And thu s the new man- a holy, spiritual character - isbeing created in righteousness and intrue holiness.

Born Again . . . HOW?In thi s new creation God works in

man , the man must be "born again ."God made Adam solely out of

matter. Jesus said to Nicodemus,"That which is born of the flesh ISflesh" ! Then He explained we mustbe born again to en te r into the Kingdom of God , not again of the flesh no t entering our mother's womb , asNicodemus thought He meant - butborn of the Spirit - born oj God. Aswe were born of the flesh from afleshly human father , so now we mustbe born of the Spirit by God , theheavenly spiritual Father.(For a more detailed and technical

exposit ion of this process, write forour free boo klet Just What Do YouMean - Born Again?)And this process is brough t about,

in God's grea t purpose, by a man firstcoming to see how wrong are theways of mortal humans, thinking andliving contrary to the revealed laws ofGod . T he first stage is repentance.Surrender to Almighty God !Bu t we now are the "clay models,"

in the hands of the Master Potter.If in this life our thi nking, ourways, are changed until we really dobecome - in spiritual character new creatures in Ch rist Jesus, conformed to H is will, then that claymodel, worked over, fashioned andshaped as God would have it , is finally turned into the finished spiritualcreation.

Begin s and Ends in ChristT his entire creation beg ins In

Christ, and is finished by Him.God created all thi ngs by J esus

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man , then, who created the originalAdam . Bu t our spiritual creation beg ins in H im , too. He it is who became our living example - whocame into the wor ld to lead the way- and became the Jirstbom fromamong the dead (Romans 8:29) the Jin t comp leted, perfected spir itualman .

Christ Is A liveN ow come to the ultimate purpose

of human life on the earth.I t is stupendous, beyond the capac

irv, perhaps, for many to g rasp. Bu tsee it , wirh your own eyes, in yourown Bible 'Each year, on the Sunday called

"Easter," million s celebrate th e resurrection of Christ. Bu t do they reallybelieve that He rose from the dead ?For th at mat ter , how many bel ieveHe really was dead at all ? Th e Bibl esays He rose from the dead.'

WHY WERE YOUBORN? You can haveboth pa rts of this vital ar-ticle free in handy book-le t form by writing thePlain Truth office near-est you. See insidefront cover fo r ad dresses.


Bu t how many believe He has beenalive ever since? How many believethe very Chris t who died is al ive today ) How many know what He hasbeen doing these past 1900 years)DO YOWThe ent ire book of Hebrews is de

vo ted to tel ling us what He has beendoing , what He is doing now , andwh at He will do in t he future.Read it in your Bible. Expect

shocking surprises - HAPPY surprises.Begin at the beginning of Hebrews

- chapter 1, verse 1: "God , wh o atsundry times and in diverse mannersspake in time past unto the fathers byth e prophets, hath in these last daysspoken unto us by his Son, who m hehath appo in ted heir of all th ings, bywhom also he made the worlds. . . ."Th e "a ll things" refers to the ENTIR E UN IVERSE ' It is so tran slated inthe Moffatt translation .

Continuing the same sentence,

" . . . who being the brightness of hisg lory , and the express image of hisperson . . . . " Mo tTatt translat es tha t" express image" as " stamped withGod's own cha rac ter. " Cont inue:" . . . and upholding all th ings by theword of his power . . ." (ve rse 3).Moffat t trans lates that as " sustainsth e uni verse with his word of power."In o ther wo rds, God Alm ighty, the

Father of the Kingd om of Go d whi ch is the d ivin e FAMILY o f God has appo inted th e resurrected, livingChrist , Hi s Son , as Chief Executive inth e administration of the Government of God over the entire uast uni-verse!Seve ral times, in the Bible, con

verted Chris tians, in whom is Go d'sHoly Spiri t, are cal led heirs of God,and joint-heirs wi th J esus Christ(Rom. 8:17; Gal. 3:29 ; 4 :7 ; Titus3:7, erc.). Now cou ld th at mean weare appointed to SHARE that rulershipof the entire vast universe wit hChrist )Beg in now with Hebrews 2:6,

quoting from Psalms 8 :4-6. The qu estion is asked , "What is man, that"thou art m indful of him ?"Yes, wha t is th ere about sinning ,

mortal man th at God shou ld be con cerned about him ?

What are YOU - that God shouldbe concerned about YOu ?N ote well the incredible answer.

The TranscendentPurpose

"Thou rnadesr him a little lowerthan the angels" (He b. 2:7). Yes,now, much higher than animals, bu rstill lower than angels who are composed of spirit (see Hebrews 1:5-7,13-14 ).Continue, verses 7-8 : " . . . thoucrownedst him wit h glory and honou r, and didsr set him over the worksof thy hands : thou hast pu t all thingsin subjection under his feet. For inthat he pu t all in subjection underhim , he left nothing tha t is not putunder him ."In chapter 1, quoted above, "a ll

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verse." Could it mean God has putthe entire vast universe under man ?That has been too utter ly fantastic foreven theologians to believe! But notice the last sentence in that verse:"But now we see not yet all thingsput under him."

Inheri ting theUniverse

That explains it . God has not yetpu t the vastness of the universe underman's con tro l and govern ing. Notwhile we are still human ! Man has sofar proved he is incapable of evengoverning himself, here on the earth!No , we don't see man yet in such fantasti c power.

But what do we see, now ?Notice the ninth verse: "But we

see J esus, who was made a little lowerthan the angels " - mor tal, likewe are now - " for the sufferingof death , crowned with glory andhonour . . ." - as explained in thefirst chapter - CROWNED - the executive RULER over the universe " . . . that he by the grace of Godshould taste dea th for every man . Forit became him , for whom are allth ing s, an d by w ho m are al lth ings . . ." - God created everyth ingBY J esus Chri st (Eph. 3:9) - " . . . inbringing many sons unto glory, tomake the captain of the ir salvationperfect through sufferings" (verse 10) .Do you grasp what that says?" In bringing many sons unto

glory." We humans who repent,come to BE LIEVE God - believe whatHe says - believe what He reveals believe the KNOWLEDGE He reveals tous, now, through the Bible - insteadof rejecting knowledge from Him asAdam and Eve did - as most in science and high er educat ion do - webecome God's SONS when He putswithin us Hi s Holy Spirit. W Eare theSONS He is bringing to this supremeGLORY!

How Christ WasMade Perfect

No w grasp thi s: " . . . to make theCA PTA IN of their sa lva t ion . . . . "18

Christ is the Captain of our salvation.Or , tha t may be translated also as the"p ioneer," who has gone on ahead ,before us, into this matchless GLORY .He already has inherited all things the universe!

But notice further : "t o make thecaptain of their salvation PERFECT" HOW ? How was even Christ madeperfect? - "THROUGH SUFFERINGS"!And not ice, in verse 11: " . . . He is

not ashamed to call them brethren."Christ, in GLORY , is not ashamed tocall us - who have Hi s Spirit - whorely on and obey Him - BR ETHREN!

"Though he were a Son , yet learnedhe obedience by the things which he su if ered; and being madeperfect, he becamethe author of eternal salvation unto allthem that obey him " (Heb. 5:8-9) .There it is again. J esus is the author

of our salvation. He wrote that salvation by Hi s experience, and that wasthe first writing of it. He was the firsthuman ever to achieve it - to be perfected, fi nished as a perfect character!Jesus learned ! He suffered! But out

of it came perfect ion .Do you begin to und erstand?Satan did not upset Go d's plan . All

that has happened, God foreknew andpermitted - for a purpose. Redemption is not a repairing of the damage- not a restor ing to a condition " justas good " as Adam before the " fall."No , that was merely the beginning -the material creation. Redemption isthe gr eat spiritual creation . In it, Godis creating in us something infinitelysuperior to Adam before he sinned .Do you see now what Go d is cre

ating, in you and me?He is creati ng something hig her

than angels or archangels . He is creating the supreme masterpiece of allGod 's creatio n - holy, perfect spiritual character.And what is character?

What Spiritual RighteousCharacter Is

Perfect character, such as Go d iscreating in us, is a person finally madeimmor tal, who is a separate enti tyfrom God, who , through independent

f ree choice has come to know, and tochoose, and to do, what is right. Andthat means to believe and know thatwhat God instructs iswhat is RIGHT.Inanimate rock will roll downhil l

by the power of gravity. W ater runsin its channels through creeks and rivers into oceans. Great planets, somemany times larger than the earth,must travel in God's ordained course.These things are marvelous examplesof the creative power of God. Yetthese things are inanimate - theyhave no mind, no free choice, nocharacter.

Dumb animals do not sin. They donot know enough to sin. T hey act byinstinct, or according to the trainingof others. Th ey do not have character.Character is the possession and

practice of love, patie nce, mercy,faith, kindness, gentleness, meekness,temperance, self-restraint, and righ tself-direc tion . Character involvesknowledge, wisdom, purpose, ability- all p roperly controlled and developed, through independent cho ice.

Holy, righ teou s character is someth ing that is developed only throughexperience. Experience requires timeand circumstances . And so Godcreates time and God creates circumstances which prod uce character.And so God first formed out of thedust - our of matter - the fleshand-bloo d man, in the image of Go d(and " image" means form or shape,not compos itio n) . And th rou ghseven thousand years of experience,Go d is taking the human familythrough a process, the results ofwhich, even "as we have borne theimage of the earthy [mortal Adam},weshall also bear the image of the heav-enly" - Christ Jesus immortal, the"seco nd" Adam - (I Cor. 15:49).Yes, once fashioned, shaped, and

molded accordi ng to God's purpose,even we "shall be LIKE HIM, for weshall see him as he is" (I J ohn 3:1-2) .

W HY All T his HumanSuffering?

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summed up in the Ten Commandments, and Satan's way of competition, greed , vanity.All suffering - all unhappiness,

fear, misery, and death - has comefrom the transgression of God 's Law.Living by that g rea t Law of love ,then , is the only way to peace, happiness, and joy.God placed man on this planet to

learn th at lesson - to learn itthrough generations of experience.Yes, we, too, learn by suffering.

Go d has revealed the true way - Hisrevelation always has been available toman. But man, g iven the right of freechoice, always has turned his back onGod, and Go d's true way. And eventhough man as a whole still refuses tosee or learn the lesson , he has writtenthis lesson indelibly in the history ofhuman experience.

We learn th rough experience andth rough suffering. This, then , is thevery stuff of which character is made.

What We Shall Be LikeO nce this godly CHARACTER is de

veloped in us, what shall we be like inthe resurrection?Already, now, in th is life, the trul y

converted Christian, having God'sHol y Spi ri t dwel ling within, beingled by God's Spirit , is a SON of God .In prayer he addresses God as " Father."No ti ce it in your Bible: "Beloved,

now are we the sons of God , and itdoth not ye t appear what we shallbe . . ." (I John 3:2). What we shallbe is not now apparent - does notnow APPEAR - is no t yet seen . Continue, " . . . but we know that, whenhe shall appear, we shall be like him ;for we shall [then] see him as he is."Ou r appearance, then, will be likethat of Christ now.And what does Christ look like ,

now?Hi s appearance is described in Rev

elation 1:14-16: "His head and hishairs were white like wool , as whiteas snow; and his eyes were as a flameof fire; and his feet like unto finebrass, as if they burned in a furnace ;PLAI N TRUTH A'!9usl 1972

and his voice as the sound of manywaters . . . and his countenance was asthe su n shinerh in his strength."

But once actually born of God entering into His Kingdom - Hi sFAMILY - by the resurrection, weshall be composed of spirit. We sha ll belike God , and like Christ now is, completely sinless. "Whosoever is born ofGod doth not commit sin; for hisseed remaine th in him , and he cannotsin, because he is born of God "(I John 3:9).As Chris t was born of God by H is

resurrection (Romans 1:3-4), so shallwe be. " For whom he did foreknow,he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, thathe migh t be the firstborn of manybrethren" (Rom. 8:29) .At that time we sha ll be changedfrom mor tal to immo rtal. "Forour . . . [citizenship] is in heaven ;from whence also we look for theSaviour, the Lord Jes us Christ: whoshall change our vile body, that itmay be fashioned like un to hi sg lo rious body . . ." (Phil. 3:20-21,marginal reading).Do you begin to comp rehend why

you were bo rn?One religion believes that the final

end result of human life is to be to talex tinction of ind ividua l consciousness. How glorious is the truth promising the very opposite extreme!

Now Understand Why YouWere Born!

The purpose of life is that in usGod is really re-creating His own kind- reproducing Himself after His ownkind - for we are, upon real conversion , actuall y begotten as sons (yet unborn ) of God . Then through study ofGod's revelation in His Word , livingby His every Word, constant prayer,daily experience with trials and testings, we grow spiritually more andmore like God, until , at the time ofthe resurrection, we shall be instantaneously changed from mortal in toimmortal - composed of spirit. Weshall then be born of God - actuallyborn into the God FAMILY!

For, remember, the word "God" inGenesis 1 : 1 comes to us from the Hebrew word Elohim. Elohim means ONEGOD - not many go ds. But that ONEGOD is a divine FAMILY - a KING-DOM . There is bu t one true Church one Churc h, bu t many members(I Cor. 12:20) .So it is with God.As an illustratio n, there is the min

eral kingdom , the plant kingdom, thean imal kingdom, the human kingdom , in th is material world. Spiri tually, there is the angel kingdom , and,high above all, the Kingdom of God.A human - flesh and blood - canno t enter i nto the Kingdom of God(Jo hn 3:6; I Cor. 15:50), but one bornof God can.

The Fan tastic, In crediblePo tential

Do you really grasp it? The purpose of your being alive is that finallyyou be born into the Kingdom ofGod, which is the divine FAMILY ofGod.When you fully grasp this tre

mendous, wo nder ful tru rh , yourmind will be filled with transcendentjoy. I t gives a new meaning to life sowonderful you' ll never comprehendthe full heights of its splendor.It means, of course, total renuncia

tion and denial of those injuriousthings and ways which have falselyseemed so brigh t and allur ing to th isworld.

But your eyes will be open at lastto the grea t deception - the scaleswill fall from your blinded vision you'll see the meaning of life, its g reatpurpose, as you never dreamed it couldbe. Giving up this world's evils,temptations and p it falls - its snaresand delusions whi ch have glitteredand then ended only in sor row andsuffe ring - is bu t emerging fromgross darkness into the splendor oftru e light, and of happiness and joyforever!In the words of I Peter 1:8, you

will " rejo ice with joy unspeakableand full o f GLORY"!

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advancenewsin the wake of today's WORLD EVENTS

With the oil-rich Mid dle East staggering along in itspredictably un stabl e manner , some nat ions are looking fornew oil sources closer to home. Foremost among these isJ apan , which cur rently depends on the volatile MiddleEast for some 90 perce nt of i ts petroleum needs.

Of late, the search has taken the Japanese to the Senkaku (or Tiaoyutai) Islands, a group of eight tiny isletslocated some 150 miles northeast of Taiwan in the EastChina Sea and 205 miles off the Chinese mainland . Petroleum geo logis ts say these un inhabi ted islands and theseabed surro unding them have the potential of becomingone of the ten major oi l-producing centers in the wo rld.

The Senkakus could thus become Asia's " NorthSea." In the actual North Sea, of course, several Euro peanna tions have already beg un to tap large reserves o f oi l andna tural gas.Rival claims to the Senkakus are comp licati ng thewho le issue - and slowi ng down exploration. As SenatorGeorge Aiken of Vermo nt has poi nted our, "Whe reveryou find oi l, you find all k inds of polit ical and militaryimplications." The Senkakus are a dramatic case in poin t.

T he J apanese consider the Senkakus to be part of theRyukyu chain . Th e Na tio nalist Chinese government onT aiwan , however, also claims sovereignty over the islands .Further complicati ng the issue, the Chinese Comm unistson the mai nland agree the Senka kus belo ng to Ch ina but to their China, not to the ario nalisrs.In mid-1970 Taiwan granted a concession for oil explora tion to Gulf Oil. Japan meanwhile tu rned over drilling righ ts to the J apan Oi l Development Co rporation .In 1970, the Communist New Chi na News Agencyanno unced tha t "any attempt of the Ja panese mili rarisrsto occupy the islands will be considered agg ression againstChinese territory."

For the present the J apanese have chosen to take Peking's warn ing at face value and to lie low . Bur the futu rem ight bri ng an agreement be tween Japan and mainlandChina - wi th Taiwan pro testing, of course - over jointdevelopment of the Senkaku oi l reserves. Even a compromise on the sovereignty issue migh t be wo rth it to J apa-

Asia' s JlNorth Sea" nese industry, presently dependent on the Middle East forthi s most vital fuel source. New Ties to Europe

Co nstructio n is now underway on two marv els ofengineering dest ined to more closely link Britain and agood portion of Asia to the growing world economicpower hub of Europe.

The first project - a long-sough t-for run nel underthe English Channel - is descr ibed as the most staggeringengineering feat of the century. And at the other end ofEurope, construc tion is progressing on a gian t suspensionbridge - the fourth largest in th e wo rld - designed tolink Asia to Europe across the Bosporus Stra it fo r the firsttime in 2,500 years. The Bosporus divides the Turkishmetropolis of Istanbul into European and Asian sectors.

T he long-planned and oft-postponed Channel Tu nnel project is scheduled for comp letion in the late 1970'sat an estimated cost of some $900 million. The ChannelTunnel, extending from Folkesrone in sou theas ternEngland to Calais on the northwest coast of France, wi llfacilitate rapidl y expanding travel and trade between Britain and the other members of the enlarged Common Market.

At the opposite end of the Co ntinent, the BosporusBridge will be the longest suspensio n bridge in Europe orAsia when it is completed in late 1973. The mile-longspan wi ll be the first linking of Asia to Europe since KingDarius of Persia made a "bridge" of rafts in 513 B.C.

A bridge across the Bosporus has become an economic necessity. Overworked 50-year-old ferries presentlyprovide the on ly link for motor ists across the strait, resulting in congestion of traffic and trade . The new span willcarry six lanes for traffic and two pedestrian walkways , andlink Turkey's major European and Asian road networks.

Eastward from Turkey extends a major internationalhig hway system throughout much of Asia, now largelycomplete. And to the west are already well-developed roadand rail networks - partially across Communist soil extend ing into the heart of Europe. The new bridge couldmake Turkey a major wo rld crqssroads in the future.

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EUROPE-Supergiant ofthe Seventies?

The European Common Market is emerg ing toshake the world - economically and politically.Here is the dramatic story behind Europe's return

to power.by Ray Kosanke

Wo WOU LD have believed itpossible, in the late 1940's,th at a Uni te d Eu rop e

would emerge less than three decadesremoved from the ruin of W orldW ar II ? And only 15 years after thesigning of the T reaty of Rome.

Most would have thought it impossible.

Yet it has happened, and is happening , just as thi s magazine has longpredicted.

Today, the European CommonMarket stands on the threshold ofunparalleled world power. Its presence is increasing ly felt in international circles - financial and poli tical. Before the end of this decade, itmay well become the most powerfuleconomic bloc in history.The next leap forward ? On J anuary

1, 1973, if all goes according to plan,*The are \X'esr Gerrnanv. France. I ralv, theNetherlands. Belgium . and Luxembourg. .


Britain, Ireland, No rway and Denmark will o fficially join with the Six*,and the Ten will capture a whoppingone third of all intra-European andworld trade.

The war-torn, disunited W esternEurope of 1945 is emerging as a suPERGI ANT in the 1970's.Europe 's Remarkable StoryEurope in 1914 was the most in

fluential continent in the world. Butby 1945 many of its cities had beentwice reduced to massive heaps ofrubble, devastated by two wo rld wars.On September 19, 1946 in Zurich,Switzerland, W insto n Churchill proclaimed: "We must build a kind ofUnited Stat es of Europe ." Reflectingo n what happ en ed in Europ e ,Churchill later said: "This noble continent is the origin of most of the cultu re, arts , philosophy and science ofboth ancient and modern times. IfEurope were once united in the shar-

ing of its common inheritance, therewoul d be no limit to the happiness,to the prosperi ty and glory whic h itsthree-to-four hundred million peoplewoul d enjoy."

Then, referri ng to the hatred andmilitancy that have long dividedEurope, Churchill prophesied : "Allthis cou ld be ended at a single stroke. . . the peoples of Europe have onlygo t to wake up one morn ing and reso lve to be happy and free by becoming one family of nations, banded toge ther from the Atl ant ic to the BlackSea for mu tual aid and pro tection.On e spasm of resolve!"

For Churchill, the beginning ofsuch a family of nations had to be reconcilia tion between two age-longenemies: " 1 am now go ing to saysomething tha t will astonish you . Th efirst step in the re-creation of theEurop ean family mu st be a partnership between France and Germany."

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of Churchill's vision and subsequentlyshared it with him , knew that Europe- the cradle of modern civilizatio n- had to change.

But first Europe, with the massiveaid of the U. S. Marshall Plan, had toface a more importan t challenge the immense struggle of resurrectingthe industrial might of the conti nentso that the wheels of a vibrant industry could tu rn once again !The economic quest ion for those

visionaries was inex tricably tied to thepolitical concern : how to prevent futu re wars on the continent of Europe.Europe had to overcome the old hatreds bred by nationalism , which hadtaught "me first" and "my coun try right or wrong." Especially, Europehad to find ways to bury the age-longenmity between France and Germany.The limitations of na tional sovereignty were historically obviousEuropean unity was a must .Fal se Sta rt s to Real ProgressA number of attempts to achieve

un it y were made in the immediateyears after Word War II , but theymet with little success. Notableamong these was the Council ofEurope , established in 1949 inStrasbourg, France . The Council ofEurope failed to bring abou t poli ticalunity in Europe because it was invested with no real powers. Its meetings became inco nclusive and frustrating diplomatic con ferences.

Drawing from the failure of suchearlier attempts, a completely new approach was developed. The new idea,largely the work of Jean Monnet, the" father of the Common Market," wasto tran sfer to a single organizationreal powers over a l imited field.

On May 9, 1950 with Monnet athis side, French Foreign Minis terRobert Schuman announced toEurope a revolutionary idea : "Mygovernment proposes to place thewhole of the production of coal andsteel in France and Germany under acommon high authority in an organisation open to the participation ofthe other countries of Euro pe. . . .22

" It will change the desti ny of theseregions which for so long have beenused for making the weapons of warof wh i ch th ey have been mostfrequently the victims. The solidarity . . . establi shed by joint productionwill show that a war between Franceand Germany becomes not only unthinkable bu t materially impossible."

The Schuman Decl arat ion led tothe signing of the Paris Treaty onAp ril 18, 1951 by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium , the Ne therlands and Luxembourg. T he ParisT reaty formally established the European Coal and Steel Community(ECSC) which began in Ju ly of 1952.Th is was the first European organization to be given supranational powersby each of the Six. It possessed thepower to operate under a single highauthori ty, ap art from any of the natio nal governments of the Six.

The immediate success of the European Coal and Steel Communi ty ledto other attempts in the early 1950'sto form European defense and po litical commu nities. Bu t the old nemesisof nationalism halted progress.Europeans again fell back on the

original Monnet idea of increasedpowers in a limi ted area. At a conference in J une 1955 in Messina, Italy, itwas proposed that efforts be madetoward possible economic un ion andjoint development of the peacefuluses of atomic energy.On the strength of a lengthy study

and report by the committee set up atthe Messina Conference and led byBelgian Foreign Min ister Paul -HenriSpaak, the six na tions of the ESCSmet in Rome on March 25, 1957 tosig n two new treaties . Th ese, together, became known as the "Treatyof Rome ." These treaties broughtinto effect, as ofJ anuary 1, 1958, bo ththe European Atomic Energy Communit y (known as EURATOM) andthe European Economic Community(the EEC or Common Market).T he Common Market TodayDescriptions of the EEC run from

its being a "supergiant" to a "robot

with six hands" to "very lit tle morethan a machine for making words." Acritical appraisal appearing in theBritish weekly, The Economist, statedthat " its first myth is to call itselfEurope when it is in reality a self-centered customs uni on ; plu s a self-centered farm policy, pu t together by increasingly self-centered individualgovernments."

There is a bi t of truth in all ofthese claims. What cannot be denied,however, is that the watch ing worldtoday is seeing in Europe's economicmiracle only a beg inning! We havesaid for years, in the pages of ThePLAI N TRUTH , tha t Europe will become equally strong politi cally andmilitarily - or Europe would ceaseto exist as more than a defun ct andinward-looking group of second rate ,bickering nations.Norman MacRae, deputy editor o f

The Economist recogn izes this fact ,too: "A huge thing is happening inEurope. They are hammering ou t thecons titution under which more than400 million of us are likely to be governed before the end of this century .And they are hammering it out whilewe all pretend that they are doing nosuch thing."

The eventual goa l: political union.Already the Community of Six is theworld's leading t rad ing power, with20% of the wor ld's imports and exportS crossing its frontiers . (This figure does not include in tra-Commu-nity trade.)

An Event of HistoricalSignificance

Th e EEC represen ts a revolutionaryaccomplishment on a vast scale. Histori an Arnold Toynbee writes inEuropean Community magazine :"Voluntary associations between

sovereign states are rare eno ugh to behistor ic, and thi s is particularly trueof W estern Europe. . . . The creation,in the nin eteenth century, of a un itedItaly and a united Germany wereepoch-making events in European histo ry; bu t the Community even withinits original confines, exceeds all



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Commission of European Communities

Individually, the small European nations have little chance of beingheard. Collectively, they become partof a greater whole, able to makethemselves heard in a larger soundingboard and able to be secure in thecomfort of being a member of an international organization .A nation' s or a mulrination bloc'sinfluence is based on its economicstrength, on its rate of technicalgrowth, and on the stimulus of alarge home market. But it also needsa strong central government.

Former president of the EEC Execut ive Commission, Jean Rey, explained it in an interview with thiswriter. The greatest difficulty theCommunity faces today is the factthat it does not have a strong centralgovernment, and achieving it seemsfar in the future.

What the nations of Europe wantare the benefits of being a singleunion, while at the same t ime retaining the individual (and often nationalistic) freedom to rule themselves asthey see fit. In other words , they wantthe fruits of being a giant economicbloc, bu t are not yet willing to mergetheir nations into one solid uni r andaccept the group responsibility thatprosperity and economic power bring.

liTHE UNITED STATES IS ON THE DOWNWARD PATH and it will be ex tremely difficult to save them from total collapse. " So said President of the EuropeanCommunity 's Executive Commission, Sicco Mansholt of the Netherlands, onFebruary 9 , 1972 .Mansholt further asserted tha t only the strengthening of the Common Market wouldenable it to come to grips with the modern world and its problems of overpopulation, industria liza tion, and pollution. Mansholt added that, if a s tronger Europe could not show the world some way out of the d ilemma, the cause would belost since " the United States does not possess the necessa ry political strength toguide the world toward the solution of this major problem." The conclusion of theoutspoken Mansholt: "Europe has a mission to accomplish !"

previous voluntary European unionsin a scale to a degree that amo unt s toa difference in kind."

W hy is the EEC considered such ahuge achievement? Most directly because it has induced the governmentsof six independe nt nations to eachgive up a small degree of sovereignty- tha t is, a small amount of decisionmaking power. Nations, like individ-PLAIN TRUTH August 1972

uals, tend to clutch very tightly toth em sel ves whateve r vestiges ofpower they individually hold.

The six nations have not given uptheir sovereignty to the EEC becauseof a feeling of outgoing concern fortheir fellowmen. Rather, it's a question of their own internal survival.The world is dominated by two superpowers, the U. S. and the U.S.S.R.

Why No Single GovernmentYet Possible

A single government over a UnitedStates of Europe is still too much forpresent-day European leaders to accept . As President Georges Pompidouof France said in a news conference,"The problem lies in knowing onwhat bases, by what methods and inwhat forms we shall achieve this government."

For President Pompidou, thepresent EEC Commission structurecannot be the answer: "Such a government of Europe would arise no tou t of the Commission, bu t only ou tof national governments joining together to make decisions that werevalid for all."

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Interview withWalter Hallstein

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P RO FESSOR Walter Hall srein is aformer presiden t of the European Commission Uanuary 1958until July 1967). He is currentl y thepresident of the European Movement, dedicated to maintaining thedynamism of the European idea. Theposition gives him a platform to continue his efforts toward European integration and unity.QUESTION: Has European integra-tion been progressing fast enoughin your opinion?ANSWER: 1 ever fast enough in myopinion. I'm a militant European andI would like to see it do ne completely. Th at means not what onecalls economic integration only. butpoliti cal integration. But it's only fairto state that it has moved rather well,despite some periods in whi ch we hada slowdown.Q. Do you feel that th e integra-tion has been successful as far asit's gone?A. Indeed, because what we wantedto do was to merge some parts ofpoliti cal sovereignty of the memberstates. That means replacing nationalpolicies by commo n policies, European pol icies.Q. One of your most widelyquoted statements is: "Weare notin business. . . . "A. I said it at Harvard.Q. At Harvard you said, "We areno t in business at aIL We are inpolitics." Now is full politicalunity a dis tant objective or is itnearing reality?

A. I t is already half of the reaIi ty weare aiming at. What we are merg ingby this phenomenon which we call"economic integration" is not economy, because it's not businessmenwho merge, not firms, not corporations. I t' s not a cooperative of consumers, or, let's say a European unionof workers . I t is the putting together,the merger of policies in these fields.But it' s not yet complete, because theidea of the final state of thi s uni fi cation of Europe was - as it has beensaid by \'V'in ston Churchill for instance. or Robert Schuman - tomerge also the fields of foreign policyand defense policy. If thi s merger isadded and if the structure of ourEurop ean communi ties is widenedand re-enfor ced , strengthened to adegree that we can really speak of afederal sta te, then we have reachedour goa l.Q. What major problems andobstacles still lie in the path ofpolitical union?A. Habits are our main dif1iculty.Just the fact that governments andthe governmental services are notready, not willing , or not easilybrough t to a point where they giveup competences they have now. Thi sfact we have to fight. and for thi sreason we have this difficulty.Q. \Vhat is the organization thatyou now head , called th e "Euro-pean Movemen t" ? What is thatorganization doing to promote thecause of European unity?A. W ell, being unpleasant with thegovernments when they are movingtoo slow. alerting public op inio n if

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anything which should be done inour view has not been done. Main-taining the dynam ism of thi s Euro-pean idea, gaining over for support ofthe you th for the realization of Euro-pean un ity.Q. D o yo u think it wi ll ever bepossible to completely subordina tenational interests t o common com-m unity in te rests?A. I don't think that is the real aimof what we are doing, because we arenot heading for a central state. W eare heading for a federation . And thisnecessarily means that the composingstates of the federation do not disap-pear. Th at ag ain means tha t there aresti ll areas, even wide areas, of compe-tence of these states. Let's rememberthe situa tio n in the United States ofAmerica, the states' righ ts discussion .Let 's remember the cantons of Swit-zerland which are extremely eager tomaintain their righ ts against the cen-tral power. Let 's speak of Germanywhere the composing sta tes have stilla wide area of competence . So theproblem is not to replace completelystate and nat iona l state competenceby common European competence. Itis to replace it where thi s is necessary,and th is is enough for these commonEuropean institutions to g ive them amost important charge.Q. Will it be possible to subli-ma te na tional interests enoug h sothat Europe can speak with onevoice?A. I'm sure it can be done. Th e factthat we have reached in the last 20years as mu ch as we have is proof ofthe fact that it is possible to do so.Great economic and other in terestswhich had been taken care of on anational level so far have already beensubordina ted to common compe-tence. Agricultural polici es are onlyone example of man y.Q . Critics of the Common Ma rketclaim th at it is in wardl y orient edand pr otec tioni st. Is th at tr ue?A. It is not true at all. It 's an old26

reproach and complaint. But if I mayjust give one example of the fact tha twe are outward looking and that weare doing our best to lead a liberalpolicy with the outside world . Wha tI mean is the Kennedy round. Withour American friends we negotiatedtariff reductions really unheard of inthe histo ry of world trade and to theprofit of everybody we did so.

But there is one grain of truth, Iwo uld say, in thi s idea that the merecreation of something like the Euro-pean Community has a very imp or-tant consequence for persons insidethis Community. They are treated di f-ferentl y from facts and persons out-side. But thi s is like with a marriage.You belong together and thi s issomething which cannot be a suf-ficient reason for those outside to saywe have discrimin ated against them.Q. What will be th e impact uponthe world of an expanded commu-nity?A. If we take the program as awhole, including its last aims, includ-ing polit ical integration, foreign pol -icy, defense po licy, then it reallymeans a change in the system ofequilibrium of the actual world. Iwouldn 't say another third super-power besides the Un ited States ofAmerica and the So viet Union. Butsomething comparable to that will becreated, and this we thi nk is verygo od in order to cont ribute to thatcentra l go al which we are followingwith the whole construction, namel ypeace in the world.Q. Looking into the future, is theCommunity destined to become ath ir d force in th e world?A. Cer tain ly no r. Th e me aningbehind th is expression "a third force,"by the people who use the term, issometh ing between the Democraticworld and the Co mmunist world. W ebelong absolu tely and withou t anyreservations, any restricti ons to thefree world . So the result of it underthe aspect of the relatio nship betweenEast and West will certainly be a

strengthening of the Democratic halfof the world.Q. Rela tions between the Com-munity and the Uni ted States arestrained at th e moment. What isneeded to in crease h armon ybetween both sides of the Atlantic?A. Sitting together, talking togetherand finding out that we are link edtogethe r by much more that we havein commo n than by the points offriction in economic affairs. And let 'snot forget one thing. Let 's no t lookat all these matters of great economicinterest only from a standpoint ofmaterial interest. Let 's see the poli-tical eleme nt in these th ings, in thesed iscussions between the Europea nCo m m unity and o ur Ame rica nfriends.Q. T he Com mon Mar ke t hasacq u i red eno r m o us economi cpower alrea dy. It 's by far th eworld 's largest trad ing unit , ye tth e ultimate go al of th e Commu -n ity rem ains political union . Areth ere safegu a rds within the Com-munity structu re to make certa inthat no superman cou ld co mealong and di rect the re sour ces of aU nited Eu rope to t he d etr imen t ofother nations?A. Th e European solut ion is almosta pla tonic idea of a system of checksand balances. As I said already, theidea is not to create a central state.Th e idea is to create a federation. Thiswould mean the survival of a certainnumber of tensions which character-ized the actua l situation, tensionsbetween the different member states,because they go on having their ow ninterest. And there will always be acertain tension between th e centralpower, the Com munity po we r, theEuropean powe r and the power of theparticular enti ties whic h are includedby this European system. This in myview is an absolute gua rantee againstthe possibilit y that one superman cancome and make out of th is great andpow erfu I enri ty a weapon to achievewhat he wants to do personally.



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Institutions of TheEuropean EconomicCommunityThe daily work of runn ing the

European Economic Community(EEC) is handled by Community institutions which include a Councilof Min isters and , as its executivebranch, a permanent Commissionsitt ing in Brussels. T he ministers,who represent their respecti ve governments, gather in Bru ssels as occasions demand. T hey alone are empowered to make important po licydecisions. T he nin e-man Commission drafts or initiates policy. It thenimplements the Counci l of Ministers' decisions. These decisions arebind ing on all six member nations.

The EEC also has a Court of J ustice, located in Luxembourg , and aEuropean Parliament of 142 members from the national parliamentsof the Six. The European Parliamentmeet s in Strasbourg , France . For thetime being, the Parliament has noreal powers over the Communitybudget (al though th is is being reconsidered ). It is no t allowed toveto decisions of the Council ofMinisters.

The language barrier is one problem the Commu ni ty institu tionsconstantly face. It is a reflection of

(Continued from page 23)position the late Charles de -Gaulletook while boycotting the Communit y for 7 months in 1965. De Gaullesaw the EEC and first CommissionPresident Walter Hallsrein as movingroo rapidl y roward federati on . Indeferen ce ro De Gaulle and France ,Germany withdrew its support forHallsrein and Jean Rey succeeded himas President of the Commission.

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the various differing cultures represented in the EEC. There are fouro fficial languages - French, German , Dutch and Italian - in wh ichthe Spokesman Group is constantlychurning ou t translations to keepthe people of the six nations abreastof Communi ty activities. If the fourcandidate countries do ent er theEEC as scheduled on Ja nuary 1,1973, th is problem will be furthercompounded. The English languagewill, to a large extent , dominate thenew member nations because of thelarge number of Scandinavians whospeak it.

Another problem has been thefact that the Communi ty insti tutions have not had the conventional,accusromed prest ige and authorityof a national government. A singlenational governme nt (in most cases)has one defined set of cultural valuesto wor k with. It has orga nizationsand institutions that are long standing and recognized by the whole nation. The institutions of the EEChave had ro gingerly feel the ir wayalong, hoping not ro tread on thesetender or sensitive national feelingsen route.

accept instructions from national governments. It is being placed in secondposit ion ro the Counci l of Ministers,who are directly responsible ro theirnational governments .

Clearly then , a st rong central government for Europe is yet future;

But the Common Market is fastreach ing a point where , by the verynature of its size and economicpower, more and more quest ions arearising of an increasingly political nature. These mus t be faced and overcome if the EEC is ro survive and ifthe nations of Europe are ro continue

enjoying the increased prosperity theCommon Marke t has produced.

Unity Coming Step by StepThis is in fact what men like Rob

ert Schuman and Jean Monnet foresaw many years ago . Said Schuman in1950 : "Europe will no t be bu il t all atonce, or through a single comprehensive plan. It will be built throughconc rete achievements, which willfirst create a 'd e facto' solidarity . . . .These proposals will bui ld the firstsolid foundations of the Europeanfederation which is indispensable rothe preservation of peace."

Yet even Monner's federation isno t on the immediate horizon.Words flow endlessly about theneeds, bu t the political will has notyet appeared. As Jean Rey wrote inVision magazine : "W hat the Communi ty is really suffering from roday is alack of leadership. Its insti tutions donot enable it to meet its responsibilities. It is the world 's largesttrading bloc, the largest importer ofagriculru ral products from the developing countries. It has territory , laws,common policies and interests. Itshou ld therefore be governed as anyof our countries is governed, by a decision -making po litical authority."

But up ro the present time, the Sixhave not shown the desire or felt theneed ro create a "poli tical authori ty."Even the invasion of Czechoslavakiain 1968 and the international monetary crisis of 1971 have not beenenough to force the Six ro form acentral political authority. The lessonro be drawn from the monetary crisis- and all the crises the Six haveexperienced up to now - is that nomember state is as yet willing to sacrifice any inreresr it considers vital.They are unwill ing to give authorityro a supranational government.

EEC officials themselves take pridein the fact that they are not involvedin matters of defense and that they arethe first international grouping in history to opera te on ly in the field ofeconomics and not in the field of political coercion or military align -

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rnenrs. As one EEC official sta ted tothi s writer: "We represent coo peration withou t dependency."\'V'hile th is reflects what the Com

mon Market has do ne up to th ispoi nt, it does not provide for the future in a worl d dom inated by mi litarymigh r where "peace" is on ly tenuously maintained by balan ces ofpower.

The Rom e Treaty itself is very generally worded and does no t go in tothe question of defense. In fact, wi rhthe completi

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