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

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

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.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

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.

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