Report of meetings :   November 3, 1949 

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<br/><br/> The Rotary Balita no. 633 (November 10, 1949). 
<br/><br/> Dr. John Nevin Sayre, elder brother of former U. S. High Commissioner Sayre, gave a new slant on the world problem of peace at this meeting-luncheon. Speaking as the representative of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation to the world pacifist meeting in India, Dr. Sayre spoke as the Protestant Episcopal Minister that he is on the long-developed and yet often violated theme of the urgency and the vitality of peace. He particularly hammered away at the damage and the insidious harm that a misunderstood concept of nationalism can bring upon a humanity that must think in terms of universalism if it must survive. Although the usual hideous aspects of atom bomb, bacterial warfare, rocket ships piloted by automatons, etc., etc., were inevitably discussed as the negative approach of fear towards the positive dilemma of war, Dr. Sayre highlighted his speech with the assertive role of God and conscience, which must be added and considered to the simple and universal instinct for survival. According to him, survival alone, must not in itself constitute the end. That survival in peace and in harmony with our neighbors and our God, is just an imperative need, if the simple instinct on which it is based is to have any meaning at all.  In this age when only soldiers and scientists enslaved to soldiers seem to have always the last say, Dr. Sayre's speech was a thrice-needed torch of eye-opening facts.