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.

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.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

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.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

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