MUSIC OF THE FUTURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 4

MUSIC OF THE FUTURE

STEPS TO ESCAPE ANOTHER CATASTROPHE. “When the order ‘Cease fire’ sounds and the restoration of peace condition begins,” said the Russian Ambassador to Britain, M. Maisky, speaking at the British Association meeting, “I have no doubt that the burning question which will animate millions of human beings all over the world will be: How to escape a repetition of the great catastrophe through which we have just passed, how to secure immunity from war to our children and the children of our children. There will be no more important and passionate question than this. There will be no other question on which so many, and with so much intensity, will think. Once this mental process begins it will inevitably, although perhaps not immediately, lead these millions to the recognition that the only road to salvation is large-scale planning in international affairs, with all that it implies. Then the various branches of science will play a tremendous role. Then our experience, the experience, ef the Soviet Union, will greatly contribute to the solution of the problems with which peoples will be confronted. However, that is the music of the future. We should not lose sight of these distant aims and tasks, but we should never forget that good English expression, ‘First things first.’ ”