Since 1945, Hiroshima has been host to millions of individuals from
all over the world seeking a solution to war. Yesterday, a former World War II bomber
pilot, now a global peacemaker, arrived in Hiroshima, an important stop of his world tour
to establish branches of the World Citizen Party under whose banner he was a recent
presidential candidate in the 1988 elections in the United States.
"From all I have read about so-called peace education in Japan," Mr. Davis
said on his arrival from Osaka yesterday, "the essential lessons of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki have not yet been learned much less applied by the Japanese people. Those lessons
are first that all cities in the world are vulnerable to attack, that is, are on the front
lines of 20th century war, and second, that the breeding-ground of war is anarchy.
Renunciation of war without the establishment of world law is like renouncing hunger with
no food to eat."
The time has come, The World Citizen added, "for the Japanese people, as human
beings, to exercise their inalienable rights as their Constitution states, 'to an
international peace based on justice and order...'"
Davis will register world citizens and issue the official World Passport of the World
Government Thursday and Friday at the New Kikusui Hotel before leaving for Tokyo on
Saturday.
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