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fessed ideals, our hopes, and our skill,
peace on earth is still a distanl objective,
seen only dimly th rough the
st orms and tltf nJoi/s of our present difflculties
?" (Emphasis oms.)
Yes, WHAT ELEMENT IS
We shall see-
LACKING?
and see very dearly.
COU LD the formulators of the United
Nations Charter have even remotely
envisioned an of the bizarre events that
have occurred since those days in 1946 ?
Could anyo ne, unless he understood
Bible prophecy, have foretold sudden
emergence of many new nations, barely
toddli ng, like political babies, through
world power politics as raw tyros and
beginners, yet each one presenting its
own peculi ar headache to all the big
powers ?
Had ANY of the big powers foreseen
such. a strange occurrence-the United
Nations would not be fac ing its present
Cflses.
T he Growing Number of
Nations
Here's what is actually happening:
I ndcpendcl1ce has become the magic
word in the impoverished "have-not"
nations of today. From the screams
of "UHU RU 1" in Kenya to the banners
of " libertad 1" in Central Ame rica,
independence is the exalted panacea of
all times.
Now, rag-tag, scraggly, ill iterate and
impoverished little countries scream for
"independence" immediately!
Staggering though it sounds, about
one third of the total population of this
broad earth, (more than ONE BILLION
people !), have run up their own Rags
during the great dismemberment of empires
that has followed in the aftermath
of World War II.
From that dramatic August of 1945,
sixty uew natiol1s have been created on
the face of this earth !
Here's what that means !
Government is much more than just
big business- requiring educated men.
Government should requi re a vast
amount of educatjon; in tme history,
government, languages, t flle and proven
science, literature, and in ALL fields!
Right government shotlld reguire kind ­
ness, selflessness, understanding, eguity,
trust, patience and faith!
It should require men of courage;
The PLAIN TRUTH
capable of g reat personal sac rifice;
completely HONEST men, who always
tell the truth, even to their own hurt!
It should requ ire understanding of
the deep racial, social and economic
problems; the problems of health,
education and welfare, of conservation,
of labor and management. It SHOU LD
regulre a depth and g rasp of HUMAN
NATURE, and real dynamic LEADER­
SHIP!
It SHOU LD reg uire all these qualities,
and a great many more!
But contrast these vital prereguisites
to rule with the spectacle of some of
the newest nations on earth. In the
great dismantlement of empires, MANY
new nations have sprung up. MANY
MORE are just around the co rner in
modern history. Here's a part of the
picture.
O nly a Flagpole to Raise
Some of the bloodiest riots of recent
history have involved the urgent desire
for independence on the part of many
tiny, struggling nations.
Like yo ung juveniles whose awakening
bodies and minds, though youthful,
begin to cry out for "experience" and
" freedom"-like teen-agers who wish
to completely throw off the yoke of all
parental guidance and authority, many
"new nations" which are not yet "nations"
have struggled to throw off their
real or imagined "yoke."
But nationhood is not aft that simple
- even as adulthood is not quite so
rosy and simple as many a teen·ager
pictures it !
Take the examples of Ghana, N igeria
and Indonesia. As T ime magazine
pointed out, their troubles are espeCially
instructive, because most of the world's
new nations have nowhere near the
natural resollrces of Ghana, Nigeria or
Indonesia.
Time said, "Far too many of them
[ emerging new nations] raise thei r
Aags with little but a Aagpole to go
on ... "
Many "capital cities" of some of
these nations are not cities at ali, but
small tribal villages with dirty, garbage-strewn,
unpaved streets; a collection
of mud and straw huts of incredible
squalor and filth ; with no schools,
no public health or sanitation faci lities,
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no plumbing or electricity, little, if any,
public transport, and almost total illiteracy.
Still , many scream for independence!
The Squeaky Wheel
Gets the Grease
Waiting right now for the new
magical status of "statehood" are
Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Mauritius-ali
due to become independent in
1966. Swaziland and South Arabia will
fo llow soon.
It was reported r~en tl y that thirtyone
additional colonial territories in the
British Empire alone remain to be freed
around the wo rld, not to mention the
nineteen otherJ to be given equal status
by other former colonial powers.
When you realize it is generally the
weakest, most vociferous and insistent,
and most violently anti-colonial who
are given "statehood" FIRST, the problem
takes on staggeri ng proportions!
And, nearly always, the FIRST ORDER
OF BUSINESS for these new " nations"
is to clamor for membership in the
United Natiom.l
And, shocking as it may sound,
EACH ONE OF THEMI when accepted
into the United Nations General Assembly,
has EQUAL VOICE and an
equal vote with the United States,
Great Britain, France or Russia!
Recent history has proved that, while
many of the emerging new Black African
nations waved "racism" as their
banner in wanting to throw off the
yoke of the White powers, they have,
nevertheless, tended to vote as a "bloc"
in the United Nations.
In other words, while screams of
racism represented the crucible through
which they gained independence, they
tend to vote in the United Nations
along racial lines, rather than as independent,
objective, sovereign nations.
But, as many such new "nations"
have found, simply getting the nation
in business at all can be an exhausting
task.
T he Polirical Babies
For example, at the same time the
new flag is hoisted, and membership
in the United Nations applied for, the
new nations must establish embassies
and consulates around the world. But
even THIS can sometimes exhatlst both