years in the future. Since there are very important prob- 

 lems of this nature, among which may be listed the world 

 population growth, the recovery of metals now discharged 

 into the sea as waste, and the large-scale reclamation of 

 arid and rain-forest zones, and it is clear that present-day 

 national governments are not capable of financing the 

 necessary researches, there is here a definite need for an 

 international body to carry out such work. 



Finally, the current arms race between East and West 

 is a strong block hindering world-wide use of scientific 

 method for peace, since the enormous cost in materials 

 and human effort involved on both sides is removing the 

 opportunity to devote adequate energy to solving peace- 

 time problems. It is admittedly impossible for either the 

 U.S.S.R. or the U.S.A. to disarm in the face of possible 

 attack, which will remain present so long as the U.S.S.R. 

 maintains its stated objective of world conquest by com- 

 munism, and the U.S.A. continues to gather ever greater 

 material wealth for itself, without giving other undevel- 

 oped peoples the technological knowledge they need to 

 achieve a reasonable standard of civilization. There seems 

 to be no real likelihood of breaking the materially waste- 

 ful arms race except by a unison of the world's scientists 

 to inaugurate a world government. 



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