It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.