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.

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

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

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.