The Book of Life

sided action. Those who seek to resolve issues on the basis of mutual agreement will, in this present world, meet no fate other than to continue their futile protests until they depart from it. VICTORY WITHOUT WAR M r. Richard Nixon was the President of the United States from 1968 to 1974. He published a book of memoirs titled 1999: Victory Without War. Among the points he makes in this book is one about the relationship between America and Japan. In this context, one of the things Mr. Nixon writes can be summarized as follows: The Americans decimated Japan in 1945 and, after World War II, rebuilt it with enormous economic backing as a model country to disprove the communist ideology that poverty cannot be removed through the process of capitalism. Democracy was planted on its territory in place of the ancient monarchy. Its constitution was written by the Americans. Its defence was controlled from Washington, DC. After 35 years of this experiment, bitter economic disagreements have clouded US-Japan relations in recent years. There is a severe trade