Global Thinking
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"This is indeed a global war.’’Major Fielding Eliot, in the New York Herald Tribune. "There must be a plan for peace on a global basis . . . the thinking and planning of the future must be global." -Wendell Willkie, broadcasting. HE War has found a Name, I see, To mark its Niche in HistoryCan you imagine a more noble, Or apter Epithet than Global? Hearing it, who would not be stirred, Nor feel the Magic in the Word? To call the Present Conflict "great’’ Would clearly be to understate, Confusing this War with the Last By plagiarising from the Past It can’t be Total War we fight, Since that’s an Axis Copyright Some call it World War No. 2, But That, I feel, will never do, Implying, as it might, that we Are contemplating No. 3. But nothing like a Global War pears to have been waged before, nd therefore, it may not be vain To hope it won’t occur again, That when its bitter Battles cease We may achieve a Global Peace, UCH Thoughts no doubt are in the Mind Who urge — rligetne us , in every Way, To grow more Global Day by Day; Still, musing as the Cables buzz, Global is as Global does, I wonder if the Word has not (Its Implications all aay Become a Fetish, and a Sor Of Pompous Substitute for
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 176, 6 November 1942, Page 2
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229Global Thinking New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 176, 6 November 1942, Page 2
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