We have no other choice. We cannot confine our efforts within our own borders. Much of the world is ill clothed and poorly fed, and this is an unstabilizing force for the future. It will not be easy to find a way to improve the lot of these countries which are already overburdened with debt, have economies that are poorly balanced and uncredit-worthy, with government structures even more inept than our own. It's a big dragon to slay. I grieve when I realize that in my entire lifetime there has never been a single year when the guns were silent and the countries of the world were everywhere at peace. Now we have developed weapons of such destructive power that we dare not use them lest civilization perish in the process. Because the major powers dare not fight each other, much of the disciplinary effect that war or the threat of war had in diplomacy has been lost. Little nations dare the wrath of mighty powers and get away with it. And the whole world trembles at the confrontation between the East and West where one miscalculation can have consequences too devastating to contemplate. This is a dangerous game that will test the quality of statesmanship of all the players. Peace is a prize that has eluded our grasp, but certainly a just and lasting peace is the most important prize of all. The problems are easy to describe. The remedies are hard to come by. Fortunately not all men are created equal or we would be on dead center with no hope of future improvement. As Herbert Hoover once said, we need to seek out the "Uncommon Man." The solution to our problems must start with increasing the quality of our public 10