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THE GRIM DILEMMA
OF GOVERNMENT
" WORLD PEACE THROUGH LAW" - "ONE WORLD
GOVERNMENT" -these are the cherished hope of mankind
for the future.
Today, government leaders recognize WORLD GOVERN­
MENT is the only hope for lasting world peace. But take a long
look at the GREATEST ATTEMPTS OF MAN IN ALL HIS­
TORY to put together such a world government. What do
you find?
It's time you recognized NO HUMAN GOVERNMENT
knows the WAY to world peace!
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PART [I
HE lfnjt~d Nations is in trouble.
Envisioned by world leaders as
the ONLY way to lasting peace
after World War II, the United Nations
Organization was formed, a building
site donated by the Rockefeller
family and an impressive, modern building
complex erected to house the many
offices and conference halls.
The record is not unimpressive.
There have been some successes, some
failures. But too many of the international
disputes to come before the
United Nations have tended to remain
u~solved- like running sores between
governments.
And today, the headaches seem to
outnumber the successes.
With Red China, German reunification,
the Cold War, and dozens of little
hot wars to worry about, the UN finds
itself heir to a whole host of problems
not remotely envisioned by its founding
fathers in the early post+war years.
Take a brief look in retrospect.
The Anything-But-United
Nations
It seems almost like the fulfillment
of an old household slogan, "H ind·
sight is better than foresight." And, to
millions of us, the archaic attempts
at world peace after World War I
by the League of Nations appeared,
by Garner Ted A rmstrong
,n 1941 , IIlIbelie'vably shortsighted.
W e saw, in retrospect, the terrible
inadequacies of the Treaty of Versallles,
all of the faults with the shortsightedness
of the Western allies~the problems
inherent in the Danzig Corridor,
the refugee problems, the Sudeten land,
the Saar and Czechoslovakia.
Suddenly, in 1939, it began to crys·
talize. Finally, in 1941, on December 7,
it came sharply into focus for Americans
who preferred to dream and play
on their island of security in the midst
of a world in ferment.
And now, in this modern age, we see
in retrospect the fai lings at Yalta,
Teheran, and Potsdam. We see the
shortsightedness of Western planners
in allowing a nuclear stalemate to
occur; a divided Berlin and a divided
Jerusalem, and the almost staggering
lack of initiative on the part of the
West to 'win the peace after they had
won the war!
My father, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong,
was an accredited press correspondent
attending the world conclave
in San Francisco for the formation of
the United Nations Charter, in 1946.
H e saw and heard there the greatest
statesmen in the wo rld, includi ng Britain's
Clement Attlee and Russia's
Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov,
solemnly admit the United Nations was
the world's " LAST CHANCE" for peace.
No truer words were ever spoken!
The United Nations DOES represent
man's greatest single effort il1 all history
to bring ALL nations together in
mutual understanding and cooperation.
Take a brief look at the record.
Since those fateful days, more than
FORTY WARS have been fought, the
world has been hurled from the machine
age to the jet age through the
nuclear age and into the space age, and
many wars are still blazing today!
Little did the policy makers realize
they were literally building into the
United Nations its ultimate death knell.
Leaders in some of the big powers
have warned the United Nations HAS
ALREADY FAILED. Many have caUed it a
"sounding board" for Communist prop·
aganda.
And today, the headaches seem to
grow oniy larger, and more insistent.
In a conference on world law, Secretary
General of the United Nations
U Thant said, "What element is laeking.
so that, with all our skill and our
knowledge, we still find ourselves in
the dark valley of discord and enmity?
W hat is it that inhibits us from going
forward together to enjoy the fruits of
human endeavor and to reap the harvest
of human experience?
"Why is it that, for all of our pro-