Replying to LO27477 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Cambell < ACampnona@aol.com > writes:
>In a Harvard speech of September 1943, Churchill
>exhorted his listeners, "Let us go forward in malice to
>none and good will to all. Such plans offer far better
>prizes than taking away other people's provinces or
>land or grinding them down in exploitation. The empires
>of the future are the empires of the mind."
Greetings dear Andrew,
Yes, a war can make many of those who felt its sufferings much wiser. But
it can also make some sufferers even more extremistic. It all depends on
"structivity" of the mind -- does the mind follow the constructive or the
destructive direction of creativity.
>THE ATLANTIC CHARTER
>The Original Version
>
>The President of the United States and the Prime
>Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's
>Government in the United Kingdom, being met
>together, deem it right to make known certain
>common principles in the national policies of their
>respective countries on which they base their hopes
>for a better future for the world.
>
>First, their countries seek no aggrandisement,
>territorial or other.
(snip)
>Eighth, they believe all of the nations of the world,
>for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come
>to the abandonment of the use of force.......
>...... They will likewise aid and encourage all practical
>measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples
>the crushing burden of armaments.
>
>"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
>
>Mmmmmmmmm ;-)
Thank you Andrew for bringing this important document to our attention.
Sadly, since 1943 little of this charter became actualised. Why?
The name of a third person should also have appeared in that document. He
was the person who explained patiently to them each of these priciples as
well as several others. He learned these piriciple self because of his
deep understanding of holism. He was the person who drafted most of the
charter of the League of Nations after WWI. His insight was often turned
down in the subsequent drafting of the Charter of the United Nations. But
because he represented an insignificant country which few people could
even pinpoint on a map of the world, he was given the red card. Little did
Churchill suspect that what they did to this man, would also be done to
him soon after WWII.
Nobody can shop around with what has come forth from the integrity and
creativity of another person without acknowledging that person duely.
Nobody can counterfeight honesty and get away with it. Sooner or later
that counterfeight will boomerang in a shocking way.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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