decade to decade and might end in disaster for the whole human species, results from a conflict of aims between two large segments of earth's human population. But, when one comes to examine the conflict, it appears that neither side really knows what it is after. Ostensibly the quarrel is about human rights; shall man be free to pursue his personal aims or shall he be a puppet of the State. But the clear-cut opposition of a spiritual to a materialistic philosophy of life is lacking. Indeed it seems at times that the United States, leader of the Free World, vaunts her material wealth rather than her Declaration of Independence as a symbol of her glory, saying to Russians andChinese: 'See what riches! What an abundance of things!' To which these nations reply: 'You have indeed abundance now but the time will come when we will be richer than you are/'This reduces the great conflict to a mere competition in greed, with two huge power groups struggling to demonstrate which can squander more rapidly the dwindling resources of our planet.