phere.

6. The high point in divisiveness was the decision of the
United States spokesmen to inaugurate the American Century
by establishing control over the Pacific Ocean, making
itself the chief power in Asia and installing U.S.A. authority
in the power vacuum left by the expulsion of Britain,
France, Holland and Japan from the territories composing
their former empires. Local wars begun in Korea (1950)
and extending across Southeast Asia have strengthened the
determination of the local peoples to defend themselves at
all costs against imperialist invaders from Europe and North
America.

7. The United States has been rich enough since 1945 to build
and maintain a navy that can patrol the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea and maintain large military
forces in various European and Asian waters. This
policy has been justified by the Truman-Johnson-Nixon
Doctrine of determined opposition to the extension of
socialism-communism and the consequent perpetuation of
the cold war.

8. In theory the socialist world is unitary. In practice it is so
fragmented by national boundary lines and ideological differences
that its members have not been able (during recent
years) to get together and discuss their major common
problems.

United States wealth and military equipment have been sufficiently
over-whelming to support the program of an American Century during which
one nation might establish a universal state exercising planet-wide
authority along the lines of the Universal State established by the
Romans at the zenith of their power. In practice the program has not
worked out. On the contrary, opposition to the United States as _the_
world power or even as _the_ power in Asia has grown steadily and
quickly into a widespread "Anti-Americanism" or "anti-Yankeeism."

Conceivably a universal anti-American movement might develop a hot war
similar to the anti-Hitler coalition of the 1930's. If that precedent is
followed, however, the defeat of the United States would be followed by
a period of fragmentation similar to or even more intense than the
fragmentation of the 1950's and 1960's.

Present efforts to shore up the insolvent U.S.A. economy and the
resulting opposition of America's leading European trading partners is
not reassuring. If western civilization has passed the zenith of its
development and entered a period of decline and