Pathways To Unity

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

Pathways To Unity

"tn my Connecticut farmhouse 1 have a radio set which I can tune in to London or Berlin in a twinkling, listen to the British news, or Big Beu. or push a knob and have any number of local programmes, and it is like the plumbing in rhe house, it is taken for granted,” said Mr. Raymond Gram Swing, the American broadcaster, in a talk relayed by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

"The children are not thrilled. They grow up having Loudon and Paris and Berlin coming right into the livingroom. And that leads me to an observation : though it is trite that the world is filled now with sharp conflict, ami groups seem to be turning against groups, there is a broad underlying fact that the world, too, is capable of being unified.

“The paraphernalia of unity is here. > We have it. We are seeing it develop. We can watch the annihilation of distance, so that already there is nothing to marvel at when it is gone. I don’t know what the process is going to be, but 1 am sure of the result. I am sure that the forces of unity will become stronger than the forces of hostility, and in the end will win out. “By unity, I don’t mean uniformity. I mean, really, the opposite. Unity through the understanding of diversity, the sense that we are valuable to each other because we are different.

“And I don’t believe that, now distance is being annihilated, we are going to succeed in creating it afresh, and will keep up any artificial barriers permanently.”