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But the pattern is becoming more clear; the habit of settling international differences at the conference table is becoming more engrained. Both of these organizations, the League of Nations in leading the way. and the United Nations in its present ef- forts, represent the great beginning of a world of cooperation, of mutual endeavor to promote harmony, to establish orderly and civi- lized arbitration and to provide for the help of one for another. They mark progress. The lawful order which such organizations represent is an edu- cational force which will acclimate the world to such thinking, and hasten the realization of harmony in the interest of all mankind. Perhaps the greatest successes of the League of Nations and the United Nations have been within their social and economic activities. In the world of international politics, they have been less successful. The reason for this is clear. W bile there is general world-wide accord in the desire to eliminate ignorance, pestilence and famine, the nations of the world still diverge greatly in their respective political aims. To obtain cooperation among nations despite these individual political differences is the task now facing our civilization. By accomplishing this, man will have won his greatest battle for universal peace and co- operation. But because of the very greatness of the task, victory is so much more difficult to gain. It will take a complete mutual un- derstanding among nations, an understanding that our earth has never seen. It will take great leaders with the highest character, along with the efforts of every member of every nation. It will necessitate sacrifices and compromises by all parties, but the reward is so pre- cious, so welcome, that the battle is well worth the effort. To the victory of world peace and cooperation over violence and chaos, to that ideal is this book dedicated. We all look forward to the day when the just hopes of all mankind are realized; those hopes of mutual understanding, benefit, and aid. When these are fulfilled, and only then, it can be said that man has truly pr ogressed.
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These are outlaw methods, scorned hy the majority of stable and free-thinking men. The promises of peace and coopera- tion must now enlighten the thinking of all humanity. All strife, all disharmony, must be exterminated before the ultimate realization of a world encompassed with enlightened thinking is reached. This is our task today, a task never fully attempted before. a task requiring dedicated and untiring effort. The necessity for all nations to live together in harmony has sig- nificantly increased since yesteryear. It now has become a matter of survival. Though force, in past centuries, could produce tangible re- sults for the victor, each new development in the instruments of war has lessened the chance of successful recourse to it. Science lias pre- sented us with the prospect of a war that will know no victor. Moreover, the technological advances of recent years have so shrunk the distances separating nations, that the al lairs ol one nation are most definitely the concern of others. Men have grouped together and ordered their lives with laws to claim the benefits of unified, regulated actions. Certainly nations could do likewise, to the benefit of the world. Our own century has seen two major efforts to bring the world- wide community of nations into responsive, mutual accord. We can only surmise at what would have been the course of events which led to World War II had the League of Nations been endowed with suf- ficient effectiveness to maintain peace and order. Its successor, the present United Nations, although profiting from the mistakes of the past and growing stronger through each crisis, still has not brought about the world unity to which it aspires.
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