week-7

Theodore Roosevelt was very effective as a President. During his term in office Japan was intent on expanding its territorial ambitions and the war between Russia and Japan (1904-’05) saw him as a negotiator. He brokered a deal between Japan and Russia for which he got the Nobel prize for peace(1906). What little known was of his secret understanding with Japan. The president had made it very clear to Japan to keep off the Philippines. In exchange he conceded the Korean peninsula to it. What atrocities Japan committed subsequently in Korea shall ever remain a dark chapter in its history. How much of that can be linked directly to Theodore Roosevelt the man?
Here was a man whose stature is even now high as any who ever occupied the White House. (As an individual he was in every respect worthy of emulation.) Is it not strange if one is called to play on the world stage and whatever card he dealt would damn him?
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Oneness is like a bank where credit of each is same as another. Only that some get to spend more and some less. Where comes this inequality?
• We have seen the characteristic of power of one: any one who uses Oneness for the greater good (remember the examples of Gandhi and Washington?). Currency that we are dealing with is altogether different. Small bills of energy ( like the widow’s mite) add up and make a big impact. Power of one, whose utility depends not in physical attributes of success but in the durable attributes that a species cannot do without, has a reserve that power hungry of this world cannot understand. Such a one is above gender, class, creed and color.
Tailpiece: Soul is the sum total of Oneness I express as a human being: power of One further stripped of non-essentials.
Famous Lost Words.
• ‘ Mr. Speaker, I alone, constitute a majority in this House of Yes-men.’

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