In the brief span of our own lifetime, we have experienced two world wars and are now as a matter of course looking for-ward to a third. It is true that those who came out victorious in the first, talked of ending all wars and created a machinery of peace, the League of Nations, and when that proved of no avail and they found themselves engaged in another war, a more serious affair than the first, and were triumphant again, they reverted to their talk of ending wars, and set up another machi-nary, the United Nations Organisation, holding out the hope that things would improve and the world return to peace. That peace is still eluding us
The achievements of science had shattered for us the old barriers of time and space and reduced this globe of ours into but a small house wherein even whispers could be heard from corner to corner. Never before was there so great an opportunity for mankind to come close together and demonstrate that they were all "Children of God" as Christ conceived, or one single family, the "Family of God" as did the Prophet of Islam, "every man, a brother unto every other".2 And yet even this small house stands divided, a victim to two powerful conflicting forces, one represented by Soviet Russia, and the other by the U.S.A., curi-ously both members of one and the same peace organisation
How long is this state of affairs to last? The conflict, it is stated, is one of ideologies. Is it so? Even like the American, the Soviet Bloc has its own vocabulary of peace, making its appeal to the same natural fear of war and wish for security. The Soviet rulers, even as those who hold the reins of Govern-ment on the other side, talk of people's democracy and profess to entertain a like distaste for imperialists and war-mongers In either case, the professed objective is a higher standared of living
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