“Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.”
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.