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Unlike most peace groups, the Committees decline to get involved in public demonstrations, though its members are free to do so. Instead, the task is to "enlist intellectuals in a for the new ideas which must the formulated in order to end the arms and in order to plan for a world without war." For this purpose, the committees call on intellectuals "to make their concern for survival an integral part of their concern as professional thinkers, bringing the tools their academic disciplines to bear the problems of peace, and making the substance of their writings and research...
...myopic focus on military strength blinds us to our overriding common interests with all countries. We have a deep responsibility to contribute effectively and promptly to the economic and social development of other countries, instead of drawing them into the nuclear conflict. The great populations of Asia, Africa, and South America seek a more representative influence on world affairs. Only the creation of political and economic structures capable of realizing the technical possibilities and human potentialities can meet the needs of these dynamic societies. We must not impose the Cold War upon them, but encourage new solutions which...
...Instead of using our abundance to develop our humanity, many of us have let the values of production and consumption dominate us. Means which should serve our material and spiritual needs and help us more fully to realize our human potentialities have instead become ends in themselves. Deprived of control over circumstances, we often sink into apathy and irresponsibility. Or driven by insecurity and fear, we strike out violently against others and ourselves, detsroying the fabric of community which might support our self-realization...
Happily, this ill-considered proposal was omitted from the new (August 1) Committees of Correspondence statement. Instead, the approach is now "unilateral steps toward disarmament," a phrase which Tocsin heartily endorses...
...Instead of doing this, the filmmakers have contented themselves with a series of unnatural color effects, that are clearly derived from the color sequences of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part 2, but lack his incisive organization and satiric overtones...