The problems of lasting peace [antikvár]

Introduction Our country is now engaged in the greatest struggle of its existence. All Americans, regardless of their past views, are now united in a single purpose. That purpose is to achieve victory and thereafter build a world where we can hope to live in peace and security. There lie before us two great campaigns. The first is the military campaign to defeat the enemy. But the second and equally difficult undertaking is to win a lasting peace for the world. Military victory alone will not give us peace. That was proved in 1918. Victory, however essential, is chiefly important for the privilege it gives of shaping an era of peace for the world. There must sometime be a cessation of hostilities, fol-lowing which some method will be arrived at for making and preserving peace. It may be by mandates of the leading victors, or by a great conférence, or by stages of settlement. For purposes of this discussion, we shall refer to these processes as the peace table.