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CONFIDENTIA
forms of power, to remain in the grip of desperate hunger, of chronic and
preventable disease that saps their strength, of ignorance and illiteracy
that shuts out hope, we have only ourselves to blame if in the Twenty-first
Century we reap the whirlwind. Sometimes it is healthy for us to remember
that the whites constitute decidedly a minórity race in the world, and that,
however successfully it may be curbed for a time by political institutions
or popular ignorance, power ultimately rests in the hands of the people.
A stable world peace during the Twenty-first Century depends
inescapably upon how effectively we work during this century, before we
have lost the chance, as apparently we have in China today, to assist the
needy peoples of the earth to lift themselves out of the bondage of
poverty and ignorance, to put an end to chronic preventable disease, to
inaugurate the building of primary and secondary schools and the develop-
ment of programs of widespread popular education.
III.
A third pending danger raises immediate issues; and it is high time
that the free peoples of the world devote increasing attention to these
if civilization is to go forward. The growing insistant demand among
newly awakened peoples for immediate political independence is filled
with danger for them as well as for others; it is producing ominous
cleavages among nations and peoples which must stand strongly together
if human freedom, now under stupendous attack on a world scale, is to be
successfully defended and survive.
International cleavages other than that between the Soviet Union and
the free world are often evident in the debates of the United Nations;
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