Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

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.

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.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

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?