The shadow of war ‘will be banished In 20 years’ time the world should have advanced to a situ- ation in which the shadow of ‘war has been banished for ever from human society. It should be a world in which all the resources of science and techno- logy, all the faculties of men, are devoted exclusively to human welfare, to making life richer and more beautiful. It should be a world of intel- lectual adventure, making vast strides in man’s understanding and conquest of the universe. It will be a world from which colonial exploitation -has been anished for ever, in which all men will stand up proud and free and all will march together happily in friendship for human bettérment in all its aspects. It will be a new Golden Age. JOHN BERNAL, Chairman of the Presidential Committee, World Peace Council (Britain) & USA and USSR will be warm friends _ In 20 years, I predict that the bomb will have been banished, and that the USA and the USSR will be the warmest of friends. Americans are characteristic- ally kind, despite any temporary impression to the contrary from the present atmosphere of war hysteria in the USA. I believe that time will cool the relatively few, but extremely vocal, American hotheads who now stir up ill will between East d West. Relaxation of interna- ional tensions will then enable constructive use of the vast sums Can man foretell the future? So many people are willing to try, that a book of a thousand authors resulted when the Novosti Press Agency circulated a questionnaire asking how the recipients thought the world would shape up in 20 years time. The replies came from people of all continents and all ages. We offer selections from the answers on these pages. In the hope you will read it for the New Year and make your own predictions for ‘the world in 20 years’. presently being spent on arm- aments., CYRUS S. EATON, industrialist (USA) & Report from X Island I shall get out an old copy of the newspaper Pravda, an issue of the late 60’s, and read my chil- dren a report of the greatest event of the second half of the 20th century. The report will run approximately as follows: “Fleets of batfleships, flying the colors of many countries, are heading towards a point several kilometres from X Island. The ships and their crews are in full battle array. “At 11:45 two destroyers, one flying the flag of the USSR and the other of the USA, slowly ap- proach each other. “A gang-plank is laid between them as their orchestras play the anthems of the two great powers. “Two sailors march smartly towards the gang-plank, one from either side. There is a black strip of water beneath them. _ “Both raise their tommy guns over their heads. ... “A loud splash below tells the world that the dream of all man- kind has been realized. “The two sailors embrace while everybody cheers. “The sea foams around the ships as weapon after weapon plumps into the- water. “The flags of all nations salute the fulfilment of disarmament. “From this day all over the planet swords are being beaten into ploughshares.” VYACHESLAV PETROV, worker (USSR) co) The Sahara will be developed. The Sahara has become an “all- African pool.” The people of Africa, however, are less inter- ested in its soil than its sunshine, for the sun’s energy is put to use in industry and agriculture. Three quarters of the great desert have already been developed and densely populated. Motor roads crisscross the ter- ritory. They have also been flung across the Mediterranean, linking Africa with Europe. A Negro in the White House A Negro in the White House! Yesterday was election day in America. The vote went to John Marving, 48 year-old Negro Gover- nor of the State of New York. Eighty percent of the electorate went to the polls. Marving got 75 percent of the votes, routing his “formidable” opponent Thompson, multimil- lionaire from East River. An im- portant part in the pre-election fight was played by women who campaigned actively for Marving. LISTEN Isabel is my first grand-niece, who was born four months ago. She looks at me, with her big dark eyes from under long silky lashes. It is with her ‘help that I shall try to address myself to her friends the same age, who will be 20 in 1984, Listen, Isabel. As yet you can- not know that you have arrived in a time of trouble; but it is also a time which is: bringing confi- dence to the human race you have ut joined. These are very troub- ed days because it may happen that a handful of people, blinded by the fear of losing their gold, will unleash a war in which we all, and you, my love, may perish. But these are also heartening days because if we avoid that war — and all men and women capable of looking tenderly at a sleeping child want to avoid it — then a world will be prepared for you, which will be more suit- ed for life than the one your par- enfS, grandparents and all your ancestors ever knew. But when you are enjoying everything that this world will be fairly sharing among its children, do not forget that it was built at the cost of great sacrifice, suf- fering and privation, for nothing, whether in the past, present or future, can be had without effort. When you can read the best books, when you are able to en- joy the sea and the sun on a sum- mer day and race down snow- covered slopes in winter, when you live in a bright house and eat whatever you want — remember, Isabel, the most important thing: you can enjoy life with clear conscience only when you are sure that others, too, have all this and that your joy and happiness have not been bought October Revolution ee A Moscow has invited p0? leaders from all over the ¥ for the celebration of the versary of the October 54 tion. 4 They will arrive by the fa “C” rocket planes travellidh 7,500 miles an hour. Cocktails will be served Moon. Today's fantasy F is tomorrow's realliff; Twenty years from 2 United States and the Union will be major partie a world program of resear exploration within the plas! system; the NATO bloc all Warsaw system will have" joined by the Pact of Hol signed in 1971, under whith two great power groupings Y themselves to maintain pe@ Earth and devote all milit@ ‘sources to the betterment of! kind and exploration of thé) etary system. Other pacts will be signed! on, uniting other groupings The Chinese will be will ISABE at the price of poverty and of others. q You know, Isabel, only your conscience is clear © dance gaily or sing loudly, @ verse or the sounds of Sy ny, love him whom the hea® choose, and breathe in grance of a lily in bloom. | And you yourself will sé all these pleasures are tri comparable with the joy | had if, instead, you choosé- and work for the good of t) ‘for the progress and hap ‘of the whole of our great f of man. The day will come, Isabel, you will understand that | thing you do, say or writ@ reflection in minds or affe life of your faraway broth people. January 10, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 6