Racial Hates, And Over-Population
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World Bedevilled By Ideological And
I a 6-months’ tour, embracing [important sections of Asia and lea. and most of the countries of jern Europe, the editor of the I gained some clear impressions blitico-economic conditions: iThere are far too many people je world to be taken care of by world’s present economic organ in. [The racial hatreds created by are growing, and ng the nations steadily towards
[wars.
Led by idealistic Planners, and i kinds of well-m ean i n g lies, many communities have [ed into an orgy of aggressive nalism and “anti-colonialism,” e they are equipped either ally or materially for self-gov wit. This is adding cruelly to edevilment of a world already sed by the growing struggle en Individualism and Gom an. the Muscovite section of the ; has not abandoned the Cold Moscow’s heart has not ed—only its tactics, cow believes that war is not ary—that it need only sit keep up the subversive re among the non-Communist s. maintain the Iron Curtain the bewildered Western world, or later will suffer complete D-economic collapse.
Muscovite Communists then ke over—they think, he only world-wide institution ig strongly and confidently t Muscovite Reds is the i Catholic Church. Confused ig and inconsistent and nsible argument have weak ill other Christian institut just as they have bedevilled vestern Governments, e is a strong fear in some es that Communism is eating Oman Catholic vitals, also. ie biggest factor of the which are hamstringing the n World in this ideological individualism versus Total sm) is the generally accepted le of adult suffrage (one le-yote). political system of practically vestern nation is deteriorat ause Western administrators tier incapable of seeing the ind abuses in Capitalism, or Uc * apply the necessary • in turn, stems from the fact that the
overwhelming majority of voters are Incapable of understanding the fundamental problems of adminis tration, which have their roots now in the complexities of modern national economics.
There seems no possibility of tak ing the kinks out of the Capitalist (or Private Enterprise) system, and making it keep in line with human justice, while the vote of the drunkard or the illiterate has the same value in the election of a Parliament as that of the intel lectual or the citizen of proved worth. Until there is Parliamentary reform there will be further de terioration of the Western system And there is no sign of reform. • But whether the world staggers along under the Western system or is taken over by some form of Totalitarianism (probably Inter
national Communism), humanity
can save itself from indescribable horrors only if the world enforces some system of birth-control Already, important sections of the world are suffering cruelly from over-population; and over-popula tion inevitably means wars and massacres. • There are four massive, fast moving developments in Asia, each capable of affecting world-wide conditions (and esoecially the South Pacific) in a terrifying degree; 1. The Arab nations of the Middle East are drawing together in a loose sort of anti-European alliance, which is directed primarily against Israel, but ultimately against the West. 2. The Indian nations are trying to establish a “neutralist” Bloc, rankmg between the Western Alliance (NATO) and the Muscovite Reds. But Moscow is boring in on this bloc and, already, has created very strong trade connec tions between the Communist countries and Afghanistan, Burma and Indonesia. 3. The Chinese (600 millions of them—one quarter of the human race?) are definitely on the march, under Red direction and inspiration; and there is nothing in sight to sug gest that, within the next few decades, they will not overwhelm Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. 4. Although Japan formally and officially repudiates expansionist ambitions and accepts regulation of population through birth-control it JfL to expect that this nation of 100 million proud and aggressive people will stay indefinitely at home.
in their comparatively small archi pelago. . .
It may he that the world’s one hope of protection against Asia lies m the apparent inevitahleness of conflict between Asiatic Russia China and Japan. All through history, these three races have sought each other, and are likely to do so again.
(In next issue of PIM, the Editor will give his brief impressions of conditions in the individual nations he visited — namely, Red Penetration of Indonesia and Singapore; Over- Population and Starvation in Italy; C r iti cal Condition of Britain’s National Economy; Sinoism : 600 Million Chinese on the March; Ger mans are Working Like Beavers— and Scaring the Soviets; Why a Ho rrib le Racial Explosion is Threatened in South Africa; etc.) IT Mr. Robert C. Hendrickson, United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Mrs. Hendrickson are to make an island tour in the Tofua in No vember. They will be in Lautoka, Fiji on November 11; Suva on No vember 12; Nukualofa, Tonga, November 14 and 15; Vavau on November 16 and Suva from No yember 22 to 24. On the return visit to Suva, the Ambassador and Mrs.
Hendrickson will stay at Govern ment House.