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.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

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.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

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