Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.