Watertown High School - Annual Yearbook (Watertown, MA)

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Qerewerd We, the Staff of the 1946 yearboolc, have endeavored to rnalfe this, the tzrentieth edition of the Annual, a record of the high- lights and happy e.1'periences of our high school days in the hope that in the years to come it may serve to freshen our memories and help us to recall the many happy hours spent at Watertown High. We offer our sincere thanlfs to all members of the faculty and student body 'whose ready co-operation made this bool: possible- especially Miss Appel, Mr. Moody, Mr. McNealy, and Miss Thayer for their constant assistance and supervision. As our central theme u'e have selected Global Unity-an issue of vital significance today. The peoples of the uvorld have come to recognize the urgent need for some enduring means of securing lasting peace between nations. The failure of past plans for inter- national harmony should be an incentive to our rising generation to help set up the machinery for an organization that u'ill substitute arbi- tration and judicial decision for war as an instrument of national policy. It is the hope of the Editors that, in some small way, this little volume of ours may help to keep before us the need for Global Unity.

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ls , Uzeme Throughout the ages global unity has been the goal of sages and idealists as the only means of maintaining lasting peace. From the days of Dante and Grotius to the time of Smuts and Wilson, organizations binding the nations of the world have been attempted. Always there has been the stumbl- ing-block of so harmonizing two great interests of the state, international peace and national sovereignty, that peace will be permanent and sovereignty inviolate. Mere negative renunciation has never proven suliicient to abolish war. The setting up of a practicable alternative has proven far more diliicult. Many plans, among them the ill-fated League of Nations, proposed with full sincerity have failed due to selfishness, greed, and suspicion among countries. The creation of a workable machinery for international co-opera- tion is only part of the solution of securing global unity. By far the bigger problem is the task of establishing a world-wide good-neighbor policy. Nations, like individuals, must establish relations that are friendly, candid, and co-operative. Co-operation among nations in business, the sciences, art, and sports will play a large role in establishing mutual understanding. Any plan to succeed must have the support not only of the governments but also of the peoples of the world. Citizens of different nations must better acquaint themselves with one another. Then, through the compelling power of an enlightened popular mind, may world harmony be promoted. Our brothers and sisters have fought to win peace. With the advent of the atomic era every common-sense citizen of the world realizes that no nation can survive without international good will, that, without global unity, this peace for which so many have sacrificed can never be a lasting peace. History shows that the United States has been a leader in the international peace movement. World power involves world responsibilities and The World, now in the midst of a gigantic reconstruction period, looks to America for leadership. At our command is a country rich in rights and liberties, knowledge and materials. In the near future the task of promoting global unity will fall on us, the present generation. We shall accept that responsibility!