Abstract

Banish Hunger from Tomorrow

In the article titled "In a Challenge to America--The Atomic Crossroads," published in the September 15, 1956 issue of the journal "The Nation," an attempt was made to clear away some of the underbrush that entangles thinking along the path to peace. Not "the peace that passeth all understanding" or "the eventual element of calm," but peace on earth among men of goodwill. It was then suggested that in the realm of human conflict, creative result flow not from forcible coercion but from reasonable persuasion. The release of atomic energy marks a revolutionary change in human affairs, for it deters resort to war and gives us a new tool for creation far better than anything , the Americans had ever had. Surely world events since last September, while exposing the growing pains of the United Nations in its progress toward adolescence, have dramatized the fact that progress in human relations, indeed the very core of civilization lies in the development of order out of chaos in the hearts and minds of men by reasonable persuasion.