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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1951Vol. XXI, No. 11

A Note On The World’S

p. 121 · Read in the full issue

Muddlers

Letter to the Editor CONGRATULATIONS on your editorial in the PIM of December, 1950. If you will refreshen your memory, you will recall that the present chaos in the world is no surprise to the “Voices in the Wildnerness” —here, at Tahiti.

The historian who will write “The De cline and Fall of the West, in the Twen tieth Century,” will devote a large volume of his monumental work to what un doubtedly he will call “The Incredible Lustrum (1945-1950)”.

Moreover, we are fervently of the opinion that a composite of the military genius of Alexander, Julius Caesar. Han nibal. Marlborough, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Wellington, Robert E. Lee, Montgomery. Eisenhower and MacArthur, could not protect the West from disaster —so long as the destiny of the west re mains in the hands of the architects of the Incredible Lustrum.

I am. etc..

A. C. Rowland.

Tahiti.