The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
