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 forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

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.

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.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

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?

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.