deficiencies, either been forced to migrate to previously 

 almost uninhabited lands overseas, or been driven to at- 

 tack neighboring peoples to redistribute their own popu- 

 lation. In Europe repeated wars have occurred since 1650, 

 and although these have been sparked off by dictatorial 

 individuals (e.g. Napoleon, the German Kaiser, Hitler, 

 Mussolini), these men have always had discontented peo- 

 ples who were ready to fight for new territory if they were 

 led to do so. In China, where the inefficient agricultural 

 methods have resulted in famines since the distant past, 

 and where people have lived on the starvation border, 

 worsened by disease, for centuries, there has been continued 

 war, both internal and external. In the United States, where 

 a large population increase has occurred since the seven- 

 teenth century, there has not been appreciable tendency to 

 war, (the Civil War was due to aesthetic ideals, and was 

 not undertaken by the oppressed negroes themselves), be- 

 cause the population rise in the eastern States was relieved 

 by migration of people westwards within the country, to- 

 gether with a more than adequate rise in economic output. 

 Until international migrations of people from crowded to 

 sparsely populated lands are made a reality, there will con- 

 tinue to be war between nations. 



Science gives Man increased power over his environ- 

 ment, which includes men themselves. But unfortunately 

 today science is being used to aggravate the effects of 

 war by the provision of even more destructive weapons 

 for the political leaders of nations to use. These leaders 

 are heavily biased in favor of the needs of their own peo- 

 ples, (or are attempting to satisfy personal desires for 

 power), and they are willing to use modem weapons of 

 war against other peoples when they feel it is opportune 

 to do so. Politicians do not concern themselves with the 



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