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Songs that the Pleiades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa Rantanwo THE HALL MIRRORS CASSILDA'S SONG IN THE KING IN YELLOW ACT 1, SCENE 2 Credibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing apolitical substitute for war. This is where the space race proposals, in many ways so well-suited as economic substitutes for war, fall short. The most ambitious and unrealistic space project cannot of itself generate a believable external menace. It has been hotly argued that such a menace would offer the "last, best hope of peace" by uniting mankind against the danger of destruction by "creatures" from other planets or from outer space. Experiments have been proposed to test the credibility of an out-of-our-world invasion threat: it is possible that a few of the more difficult-to-