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having dinner with the Japanese banker and industrialist Takasumi
Mitsui, and his wife. Mr. Mitsui's chief subject of conversation
was his enthusiastic report of his visit to the Ambassador College
campus in Pasadena. He and his wife had just returned from there.
They visited our campus while we were on our February round-the-
world trip. He was lavish in his remarks about the genuine
happiness he had experienced on the Ambassador campus.
Probably the top ranking internationally known educator of
Japan is Dr. Nobumoto Ohama, former President of Waseda University.
He attended the meeting of Japanese professors I addressed last
September. He accompanied me on my 45-minute meeting with Prime
Minister Sato. He is chief nonpolitical adviser to the Prime
Minister and the Japanese government on Okinawan affairs. He met
me at the airport in Okinawa when I arrived there in February. Dr.
Ohama plans to visit and speak at Ambassador College in Pasadena
in September.
Prince Mikasa, brother of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor
Hirohito of Japan, has expressed a desire to visit and lecture at
Ambassador College. However, because of his official position he
must await an official state visit on invitation of the Government
of the United States. That may be next year.
Also President V.V. Giri of India has twice expressed to me a
desire to visit and lecture at Ambassador. But he, too, can come
only on an official state visit on invitation of the United States
Government. We look forward to that in anticipation.
And just over a month ago, a man very high in the government
of the second largest nation -- India -- was our guest for a week
on the Pasadena campus. Twice he addressed our students. He is
Dr. Nagindra Singh, Executive Secretary to President V.V. Giri,
and delegate of India to the United Nations conference at Geneva.
Also Dr. Singh is perhaps the leading exponent of "WORLD PEACE
through international Law." He has SIX academic doctorates after
his name -- all earned degrees -- from such universities as
Cambridge, Moscow, Dublin, Delhi, Calcutta, and Bihar, including
the very rare and coveted D.C.L.
He and I are in agreement, in principle, on what it will take
to bring world peace. In his lectures he said two ingredients are
basic -- Law, and Authority. Law without Authority would be
flouted and produce anarchy. Authority without Law would be
despotism and tyranny.
I explained to him that what we proclaim is: The LAW of GOD'S
GOVERNMENT, and the supernatural divine AUTHORITY of God. We are
PREPARING THE WAY for that. And meanwhile we are proclaiming THE
WAY that does, in our lives now, CAUSE peace. And more, we are
SETTING THE EXAMPLE!
Other world leaders have come, and in increasing numbers are
beginning to come, to the Ambassador campus, to SEE with their own
eyes our EXAMPLE of WORLD PEACE!
Dr. Singh said there is no other educational institution like