Editors's Note

World Words is being launched as the first electronic forum for quality works of writers and poets from the whole world, in any recognizable language, as well as for other artists such as painters and photographers, provided that their works could complement the appreciation of the literary works to be published. This first issue includes only literary works already published in World's Word, the multilingual journal of art, poetry and prose published from 1983 thru 1987 by a group of employees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, although World Words is not officially the successor of the earlier journal nor is it affiliated with the World Bank or the IMF. World Worlds will be updated every two weeks as new literary works reach us and are found worthy of publication, except for this first issue which will remain as is for two months. We start this first issue with the beautiful poem by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney "The Republic of Conscience", commissioned by Amnesty International and kindly lent to us for use in the last issue of World's Word in 1987. We follow with the moving "Turkish-Greek Poem" by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Bulent Ecevit, written in London in 1947 and also kindly lent to us for the last issue of World's Word.