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Preamble. By John Ellingston. [1] (1943)

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A wcrld society with so much po'.er os ---r! must either be organized to
serve the welfare and the dignity of the indi.idi::- hz r. buing or it vill destroy
itself. Our capacity for destruction g-c 7s -.5   ,'ved   it groTs the pressure to
destroy. T. ice in our generati.xi this pressure L:c- vrerd the ash -nd death of
war more widely over the glob-. 04e SVCk of BelUIiL, in 194_'.l8 became in 19357-45
the sack of Asia and 'urope. The :illig -of sf &isr   graer into the exterrintion
of rzces, In World War II it nceds ou. a night I- r e  G Orventry or a Colon .
No continent, no city, no shred of crivilirstion r:vi Is sfe from the lO00-ton
bombers of a Third World 'ar.
The conditions that hrve bred two World   in. thet will inei
unless te chi nge them, breed the TUird, spring pr.3d.,-minrntly from our social znd
political .ladjustment to industrializetion. No industrial nation or ca.on-
riealth of astions, not even the United Ststes or Russiv or the British Empire, is
self-sufficient. For full employmn t and prosperity each must have access to rea.
meterial:, and markets outside its on boundries. For geographically smaller
lndustr.al powers, access to these e::terns.1 resou-ces is the condition of surv _ni-T,
In a vorld cut up into economicelly irretionc-! ce:. i; tsriffs, quotas, end other
political barriers to the healtiy exchrnga of goo31s, fear drives nrtions to try
by a7meients end the threat cE force to secure their indispensEble rraw mterials
and nerkets.
With the international field thus const.-rt!y mined for explosion, mvled-
jutments within industricl nations crerte pressures to l-ght the fuse. Industrial-

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