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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 9, 1985
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might, and we know from World War II how non-nuclear armed forces
can be used to kill and destroy on a vast scale. Therefore we
must learn how to contain and eventually eliminate conventional
as well as nuclear wars. To this end we must develop a long-term,
two-prong approach: first, the creation of truly effective peace
keeping machinery; and second, the gradual elimination of� many
basic causes of war as possible--£rom access to resources and
markets, to territorial ambition, to ideological fanaticism••••
What kind of peace-keeping machinery can be made to work? For
this purpose the United Nations as presently constituted is inef
fective, as are regional structures such as the Organization of
American States.
Clearly, we have reached the point in the
political evolution of our world where international disputes,
together with warlike actions such as international terrorism,
must be handled through a global legal code backed up by the
legal, military, and economic machinery needed to take firm
enforcement measures when required. Although! _fil!! not so naive
� to suppose that� full-fledged world government� be created
in the near future, it should nevertheless be possible for the
nations of the world to agree upon a legal code covering the more
critical elements of war and peace and to establish the necessary
enforcement machinery.
"A global legal code" capable of being enforced by "legal, military and
economic machinery"--how better to describe, in secular terms, the Law of
God being enforced by the government of God in the World Tomorrow?
General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines recently echoed some of the
same conclusions reached by Dr. Brown.
General Romulo was one of the
original signers of the United Nations Charter.
He was invited, as a
special honored guest, to the recent U.N. review conference in San Fran
cisco. He gave a short discourse preceeding the main luncheon address on
June 26 in which he said that "we have yet to accept the challenge to deal
with the basic causes of war." The peoples of the world, he added, have
been unable to cross "the great bridge from unfettered national sovereignty
to a workable world order."
Still lacking, General Romulo said, is the means to bring "the rule of law
to bear
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nations themselves. The absence of law by definition is anar
chy." The most urgent need now, he continued, is for a world organization
capable of "defining and enforcing acceptable standards of human behavior
[and] capable of defining and enforcing peace in the common interest."
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau