“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.”
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
