Abstract

America's Responsibility for World Peace

The problem of preventing a third world war presents itself to the present generation as a staggering challenge. Unless Americans would fritter away the great opportunity of the present time, unless they are willing to lose a peace bought with such toil and sacrifice, they must mobilize the intelligence of mankind in organizing the world of States to safeguard the security of all peoples. Americans shall proceed, of course, with serious limitations. Chief of them, perhaps, is the fact that Americans must act before the healing of the rifts, which the war has produced, while Americans themselves are in the grip of war psychology. In the years following 1919, most of the people were only too conscious of the serious consequences of war psychology on the Treaty of Versailles.