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THE WAR THAT WON'T
GOAWAY
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Stepped-up fighting in lndochina is
again forcing the United States into
agonizing decisions.
NEW ERA DAWNS
FOR SUEZ CANAL
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ldle for 8 years, the strategic waterway
may soon be reopened to shipping .
BUREAU REPORTS
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Our bureau chiefs and correspondents
-examine current trends in their areas.
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THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL•. .
The Missing Dimension
in
Knowledge
Third )nstallment in a series detailing
the purpose and meaning of human lite.
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FOOD
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POPULATION / WAR
Scientists examine the monumental prob–
lems of food and population. What can
be done for the world's starving milliorts?
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
SPEAKS OUT!
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How politics reduces leadership to
a
petty tug-of-war between parties.
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ORCHIDS AND ONIONS
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with our readers,
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WEEK
ENDING MARCH 8, 1975
DR. KISSINGIR'S
GlODMY
by
Jeff Calkins
The man the Gallup Poli says is the
most admired in the world, Henry Kiss–
inger, takes a very- dim view of the fu–
ture. ..As a historian,.. he has said,
"you would now have to predict that
our kind of society would very probábly
not
la~
much longer." The words of the
"Ame.rícan Secretary of State reflect a
dour appraisal of the world's ultimate
destiny.
On another occasion, the globe·trot–
ting American Sec·retary· of State told
New York Times
correspondent James
Reston: "History is a tale of efforts that
fai led, of a.spirations tñat weren 't real–
ited. of wishes that weie fulfilled and
then tumed out to
be
different from
what one expected. So, as a hístorian,
one has to live with a sense of the inevj..
tability of tragedy...
-
l t is knov-n that Oswald Spengler's
book,
Death of the West.
has had a
profound effect on Kissinger's thinking.
In the early 1920's Spengler postulated
that civilizations pass through
a lite
cycle . and
that
by
knowing where one
was in the cycle. he could predict the
shape of the futura.
Desth
óf
the West
saw the occidental world as having ma–
tured beyond the creative stage into one
of material prosperity. The future could
tiring only irreversible decline.
Kissinger sees the signs of Spengle–
rian decay becoming more apparent. All
.westem
democracias. he
asserts, suffer
from a ..crisis of authority, .. and there·
fóre cannot act
with
decisiveness when
·
confrontad with hard and complex is–
sues. ..Governments aren't w illing to
make short·term sacrificas,·· he asserts.
lt's
a Small, Small World
No other figure is identified as a ..glo–
balist.. as muchas Henry Kissinger.
Ouring his tenure as foreign policy
superstar, the American Secretary of
State has had to tace an accelerated
crescendo of worfdwide convulsions
-
food, energy, reso)JrCes, overpopulation
- which have reinforced his historical
pessimism. At the·same time. the supra–
national éharacter of these crises has
_impressed upon him the factor of global
interdependency.
Volume XL No. 4
Kissinger's atte'ntiveness to wortd in·
terdependency stems from a fear that
the inability of nations ..to handle crises
beyond their immediate nationaf scope,
such as population and energy. could
precipitate Hie end of industrialized.
democratíc society... l f we do not get a
recognition of our interdependence, the
Western civilization that
we
now have is
almost certain to disintegrate, because
it
will1irst lead to a series of rivafries in
which each region will try to maximiza
its own special advantages. That inevi·
tably will lead to test of strength of one
sort or another. These will magnify do–
mestic crises in many countries, and
they
wíll
then move ffiore and more to
authoritarian models.
·'
Out
of
such a scenario comes Kiss–
inger's call for global cooperation and
sharing . ..You cannot have a peacefur
world without most of the countries and
preferably all of the countries feeling
that they have a share in it... he warns.
But ironically. the
realpolitik
in which he
is learned as a scholar anda historian is
founded on a very negativa inter–
pret ation of human nature which pre–
cludes the acts of international altruism
for which he calis.
Leaming
from
Experience
Kissinger's role as both scholar and
statesman imposes \Jpon him an unfor–
tunate occupational
schizophrenia,~
He is
tom between the function of a public
official. which, in his own wotds. is "to
do the best you can, " and al( that he
has learned in the academe.
During his confirmation hearings as
Secretary of State. Kissinger frowned
on the pessimistic approach to foreign
affairs. ··A shrinking spirit. " he stated,
"could leád us to attempt too little."
But since those hearings in October
1973, what the Germans call
Welt·
schmerz,
or worid gloom, has obviously
made deeper inroads into his thinking.
As he told James Resten, ..1 think of
myself as a historian more than a states–
man.
As
a historian, you have to be
conscious of the fact that every civ–
ilizati.on that has ever existed has ulti–
mately collapsed. ..
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