- -145- There is still another count in the indictment against 2 program of nass education for "world governnent right now." It is frequently and falsely said that at the very worst an attompt to establish world government immediately could do no harm. It can in fact do harn in two ways. It can divert public attention from the urgent necessity of discovering a lcss simple and less spcc- tacular solution. A slogan as attractive as“werld govornnent right now" can Ne fay“1 ba o = easily become a mass anodyne, cxeclient for. soothing a disturbed public opinion oe but unfortunately alse cffective in distracti Sur © attention from the imperative quest for another type of solution to the control problem, The other danger to which the United States and the world nay be exposed in the event that American public opinion is brought to believe in the urgent necessity of world government right now is even nore sorious. Tf frustrated in their efforts to achicve world government by voluntary agreement, many would come to believe that forcible unification is better than no unification. They would advocate the alternative route to world unity, vie imperial conquest, Theywould proclain and believe that they were advocating war only because it was made neccessary by the unfortunate umvillingness of the leaders of certain states tc grasp the compelling necessity for a surrender of sovereignt wt if survival were the only human value and if the political wnification of the world offered the only chance of survival, then a good case night be made out for the reorganization of the world under Anerican hezenony. only hurian valuc. But survival is not the In spitc of all talk in this country of the bomb as "a sacred trust'!' which the Alinighty in His wisdom has seen fit to give first tc the United States, no Amcrican really believes that denocratic values can be preserved cither here or elsovhere in the world if the United States undertakes to unify the world by using or threatening to use the bomb on any recalcitrant, Evidence has already been cited to shew that the voluntary adherence of the J1. See Chapter IV, supra,