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No more thrilling challenge confronts the people of this generation than that inherent in the crusade to abolish war and to create adequate international organization.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Distinguish between the outlawry of war and the abolition of war. The former is only a step in the direction of the latter.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
The ideals and aspirations of the American people with regard to world peace can never be fully realized until the United States is a full-fledged member of the League.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
If we insist upon being a law unto ourselves, we make it easier for other nations to do likewise.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Prominent American jurists have long advocated the granting of compulsory jurisdiction over justiciable questions to an international court.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Predictions of failure have been made every time an extension of governmental jurisdiction has been suggested.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
If an international treaty outlawing war is negotiated, there is every reason to believe that the United States would join the League of Nations without further delay.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
The physical basis for international cooperation is being more firmly established each decade. Space is being bridged and time eliminated by modern inventions.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
If various races and nationalities can live together peaceably in the United States, why is it not within the bounds of possibility that they can learn to live this way throughout the earth?
An American Peace Policy (1925)
In the early days of our Federal Government, skeptics concerning its usefulness were found in high places.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Plato and Aristotle were both convinced that democratic government could not function successfully in an area larger than a city-state.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
In spite of vast numbers of people and the different races involved and the great distances separating the various parts, the British Commonwealth is functioning sufficiently well to offer hope for effective international agencies.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Surely, with so much at stake for the entire human race, the only place for the United States is in the vanguard of the movement to substitute international law for international violence, international agencies of justice for international anarchy.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
Then came the political campaign of 1920 with its bitter personal feuds, as a result of which the real underlying issues were obscured by passion, misrepresentation and downright falsehood.
An American Peace Policy (1925)
For a powerful nation like the United States to continue its insistence upon absolute sovereignty and to refuse to cooperate in creating effective international agencies of justice, is to obstruct the pathway that leads away from international chaos and destruction.
An American Peace Policy (1925)