Evening star., 1941-08-20
'Bruve New World
Anticipated
Writer Tells Of Vision
Of Earth Made Free
From Fear and Won't
By Glare Boothe

By Glare BOOthe
(This is the third in a series by
leading American writers on the
theme of the Williamstown Institute
of Human Relations at Williams
College, Aug. "a to 29)
I want to live in world in which the
public's business is conducted by men
whose chief ambition is to enrich and
educate the public. I want to live in
world in which the leaders, elected by
the will of the people, are always op-
posed by some of them, and sometimes
by all of them. For the leader who finds,
or brooks, no opposition and rejoices
in this, is leading a nation of slaves, or
dupes, or dopes, to their undoing. I
want to live in world in which the
common people do not discuss politics
morning, noon and night, exasperating
their neighbors and wearying their wives
with footing, frantic, fearsome discus
sion. For only when the common peo-
pie seldom speak of politics is a nation
being well governed.
I want to live in world where the
civilian is honored above the soldier,
and the pen and the pillow, the foundry
and the loom above the 75-millimeter
gun and the nose-dive bomber. For SOL
diers bring no joy to any one with their
weapons, and the man of peace has no
need of them. want to live in world
where the vast output of industry is for
peaceful pursuits. For the greater a
nations armaments, the greater its con-
fusion, and nation in arms is by this
very token nation in physical peril I
want to live in world in which men
do not grow wild with joy over victories
on the battlefield. For a nation which
rejoices at bloodshed is in spiritual peril.
No amount of patriotic caSuistry can
conceal this truth from honest minds.
want to live in world in which the
leaders of great nations govern humbly
in the knowledge that every country is
part of the world and not a world apart,
that "nationhood" is geographical con-
cept inevitably doomed to alteration or
disaster unless the spiritual concept of
brotherhood is placed above it. 1 want
to live in a world in which diplomats
are somewhat more careful of the fate
OF whole peoples than they are of the
creaSes in their pin-stripe pants and
who know that great and rich states
must at all times serve small and Door
ones. For this is the only way to win
their allegiance. I want to live in a
world where powerful statesmen see quite
clearly that only the strong can be and
must be generous. For to be ungener-
Gus is to breed hatred, to encourage
attack and thus in the end to grow
weak.
l want to live in a world in which the
leaders seek first among their own peo-
pies for the blame and the fault At
tendant to crisis. The fault for the
hunchback child lies in the mothers
womb. 1t is that you must study. The
leaders OF America and Great Britain
will never understand Hitler nor cure
Nazi-ism until they first understand
America and Great Britain. For if we
are at war with this moral hunchback.
Hitler, it is not because of his Short
termed folly, but our long termed blind
ness; not because of his brief lunacy,
but our longspun stupidities And if we
are to eradicate the forces of Nazi-ism
we must eradicate the causes.
Above all want to live in a world in
which responsible men have fully
grasped the new and beautiful truth of
our times: That at last the means of
production, transportation and COM
munications do exist whereby all the
men on this globe can be fed, clothed
and educated. For until this astound-
ing mechanical fact is spiritually grasped
and politically implemented by our own
peoples and our own leaders, we are
committed to wars without end in this
century.
want to live in brave new world
where service to his fellows, not service
from them, is the measure of the in
dlvlduaPs success; where honor and
glory accrue to him for a quick heart
and ready brain; and not because he
has a nimble thumb for clipping cou-
pons; where he feels he provides better
for his children by leaving them a good
name than great fortune. In short,
I want to live in world in which all
men are born equal in opportunity to
achieve by merit, virtue or genius that
fine inequality which will be viewed by
lesser men without jealousy or rancor.
I want to live in world where mortal
men can and do turn freely and often
to whatever immortal God they deem
good for the comfort and guidance
which are never to be found among men
in even the most glttering, productive
and just material world.
want to live in world in which
Buddha, Confucius, Laotse, Mohammed,
Moses and Jesus replace Genghis Kahn,
Attila, Marlborough, Frederick the
Great and Napoleon as pertinent mat
ter for widely syndicated newspaper
columnistS. I want to live in world
in which there are great public bonfires
of all the "How to Kill" and "Who to
Hate" books: The books of Clauswitz,
and Fuller, Fortsch and Mahan, De
Gaulle and Hitler.
That's the sort of world I want to
live in. So, suspect, does every sane
person. But "sane people" tell you,
these days, only insane people believe
that sort Of world is possible. In which
case, the world want to live in is a
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