PLEASE, NOT JUST YET

Press, 10 May 1980, Page 14

PLEASE, NOT JUST YET

By

WHIM WHAM

World War 111 is closer now than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis of. 19§2, says a House of Commons motion signed by .members of all three main British barties ... urges an early meeting between President Carter and Mr Brezhnev “as a means of preventing a further slide towards world conflict.”—News. ■ If what They say is true — What do you think, dear Readers? Can a Meeting between those two . Superpower Leaders Save us from a third World War — If That’s what we’re headed for? If Carter, Jimmy met Brezhnev. Leonid — On a Summit, a Cloud, in a Jet — While the World slid Nearer and nearer Disaster. Would it stop for Them, or slide faster? A Summit’s a dizzy Spot — When they get up There. It’s tile last Resort we’ve got, Except — maybe Prayer? A Summit that looks so attractive May perhaps be volcanic — and active! Take a History Book, Sir, And studiously thumb It — The Wars, when they had'to occur, . ; Leapt from Summit to -Summit — The Solutions, if Any, wire -found On lower, and commoner, Ground. ' If Jimmy and Leonid , ■ Ever meet Face to Face. . The World. I’m afraid, will have slid To a perilous Place — There’s Oil on the slippery Slope, And No-one to throw Us a Rope!