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# DRE internationalYEAR I DECEMBER 1964 CUBAN STUDENT DIRECTORATE'S INFORMATION BULLETIN No.7# OUR OPINION# CHRISTMAS MESSAGEAs another year draw's to its end, we find before a world new in many aspects bat sadly stagnant if not actually retrogressive in some of lite's most vital facets. Humanity is a year older but is it not still engaged in a relentless search for the true meaning of its being?Decearber is a trongbiiul month in the lives of men. It is the hour of retrospect, of questioning, of reorganization and projection into the future. Above all, December is a yearly reminder of an idea and a way of life for men. A new and revolutionary order bors twenty centuries ago, comes vigourously to the forefront for in the long months of toil we bave not forgotten the cause and the goal of our existence.No time is perhaps more adequate to ask this question: Have men achieved for the world a lasting peace? Each year the same unconditional, negative ansuer meets the question. Not only dors makind live far removed from peace but each new day embarks upon roads that can only lead farther and farther away from it into world of national and international wars.Tuo causes exist in the reality of our world, one in the moral order, the other in the realm of social and political entities. Each complements the other and buth are necessary to the attainment of stability in the society in which man must live.Men would have peace in today's world but do nothing to preserve the forces of internal peace in each man. Man, the family, society: the elements capable of achieving for the world a real and positive peace are totally disunited and into each bas been soxx the seed of distrust and of fear.There has been such jaggling of doctrines and ideologies, instead of being a source of confidence and strength by ubich men may rule their lives, have served only as a source of fear and hatred among nations andraces and even among men in the same community.Morally, our world bas chosen to forget the command: "love one another as I have loved you".Socially, comenience and seif interest have made this world blind itself to the fact that, "Peace can only be the consequent to the establishment in each Nation and in the world of regimes or systems of government based on justice and the freedom of the individual.Today world is not a very adequate breeding ground for peace. Colonialism, imperialism, rightist and leftist totalitarianism thrive throughout the world stiffling in man bis longing for liberty and equity.We as young men and as Cubans have a duty and right to our land and to the world. Our land, we firmly believe, will know peace only when we have returned to our brothers the right to think and to speak freely, abolishing the rule of terror and injustice that today shackles our people.The world faces much our same task but on a vaster scale. Each man must be given the freedom of choice and the justice which are his right.To promise and to speak of peace without the noble purpose and the firm decision of fighting tirelessly for its attainment is a cowardly crime.Peace, as all worthwhile things, bas a bigh price and its achievement entails a struggle. Those who would have peace must willingly take up the battle against those forces at work in our world ubich dehumanize man and make him a prey of fear. No season is as appropriate as Christmas to reaffirm in each of us the determination to carry on this struggle until true peace bas been given to man.