NATURE OF PROBLEMS UNDER CONSIDERATION

Present Resources Sufficient for Present Demands

The presently available resources of the international economy comprising organized manpower and materiel with the facilities to transport and mobilize their effectiveness, knowledge and skills and the means to communicate their conceptsare sufficient to mend all the world's ills. To this task we have pledged our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

The regrettable trend of purposeless dissipation of mankind's energies and assets into crosscurrents of means and ends in politics, religion, and economics continues to deny to the world community the unity of freedom, the peace of understanding, and the enlightenment of abundance in which all should share. Tensions and dissatisfactionsindividual and international, both well and little knownpersist; therefore, the demand for renewed study, foresight, and decisive action imbued with universal good will should be our first consideration in the universal cause for the ennoblement of man.

Honest appraisal of abundant opportunity at hand will reaffirm that the world already has at its disposal the elements necessary and sufficient for the resolving of its difficulties. Therefore, fuller utilization of the matrix of the present is the only sound approach to international order and better living; and this disposition must dispel any tendency to put off till the morrow that which needs attention today if that morrow is to become a desirable reality.