United Nations
Sir,—Experience has shown that in war nothing fails like success, the only real compensation being the new ideas it generates. In the Instructions of Ptah-Hotep, written at the time of the fifth dynasty for the use of Egyptian princes, are found high standards of moral ideas hardly improved on today; yet the urge to rediscover the fears of our prehistoric ancestors appears a diplomatic instrument of mankind who, with self-consciousness, is still capable of killing members of his species without need. To see in ourselves what we criticise in others, make language adequate to meaning, fidelity to the common good, some contribution to world-wide order of necessity could be made by recognising discretionary competence in the United Nations for settling disputes within the orbit of our foreign policy.—Yours, etc.,
WEST WIND. October 16,1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32430, 17 October 1970, Page 16
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