Encyclical on Good Will
By El Morya

 Political and Economic Complications
[Morya's comments here are based on the global situation in 1963.]

Direct political-military confrontation of the world's two major power-ideological blocs is unabated in Cuba, Berlin, India, Laos, and Formosa. Increasing ideological conflict for men's affections and actions is evidenced in Asia, the African states, and most especially in Latin America. Common external threats and internaldemands have united certain groups to set aside, to a degree, the momentums of provincialism, national honor, and national security, as evidenced in the hesitant economic integration of western Europe and other areas.

     While the larger powers increasingly recognize the limits of unilateral action, many newly emergent African and Far Eastern states earnestly seek the glittering laurels of nationhood. The preoccupation with political rivalry by many leaders within and among these states takes the place of the larger humanitarian concerns of caring for their hungry, poverty-stricken, sick, and ignorant peoples and only further postpones long overdue redresses of social, political, and economic imbalance. Lack of adequate standards of impartial public service in many ex-colonial lands, new and old, has resulted in the chaotic conditions so tragically illustrated in the Congo. Fuller integration of all citizens into the body politic of their nations continues despite the opposition of certain elements to true equality before the law.

Demographic problems further complicate this picture, for population increases occur in the very areas least able to support their peoples adequately. Certainly the doctrines of Malthus must not incite fear in man, for Divine Providence is ready and able to release through the instruments of the world's governing bodies the necessary wisdom to cope with every problem. It remains for the training and organization of receptive leaders to be multiplied who will cast aside personal considerations in the interest of the common weal. Direct political-military confrontation of the world's two major power-ideological blocs is unabated in Cuba, Berlin, India, Laos,and Formosa. Increasing ideological conflict for men's affections and actions is evidenced in Asia, the African states, and most especially in Latin America. Common external threats and internal demands have united certain groups to set aside, to a degree, the momentums of provincialism, national honor, and national security, as evidenced in the hesitant economic integration of western Europe and other areas.

While the larger powers increasingly recognize the limits of unilateral action, many newly emergent African and Far Eastern states earnestly seek the glittering laurels of nationhood. The preoccupation with political rivalry by many leaders within and among these states takes the place of the larger humanitarian concerns of caring for their hungry, poverty-stricken, sick, and ignorant peoples and only further postpones long overdue redresses of social, political, and economic imbalance. Lack of adequate standards of impartial public service in many ex-colonial lands, new and old, has resulted in the chaotic conditions so tragically illustrated in the Congo. Fuller integration of all citizens into the body politic of their nations continues despite the opposition of certain elements to true equality before the law.

Demographic problems further complicate this picture, for population increases occur in the very areas least able to support their peoples adequately. Certainly the doctrines of Malthus must not incite fear in man, for Divine Providence is ready and able to release through the instruments of the world's governing bodies the necessary wisdom to cope with every problem. It remains for the training and organization of receptive leaders to be multiplied who will cast aside personal considerations in the interest of the common weal.