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Perplexities of Peace
Chapiro, Joseph | August 14, 1943 issue

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It seems that the U.S. knows less about the principle of world peace than about how to colonize Mars. Certainly, none of the democratic peoples wanted a second world war. They made great sacrifices to avoid it. Nevertheless, they were drawn into war, one after the other, by a stronger, undemocratic nation, not because the democratic principle was a failure, or because the peoples adhering to it were betrayed by their governments, but because their statesmen and politicians did not understand the completely new principle of the modern world. A single people can unleash world war. But world peace can be secured only by all the peoples together. That is the lesson of the period between two wars.

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PEACE; INTERNATIONAL relations; RECONSTRUCTION (1914-1939); PEACE-building; INTERNATIONAL solidarity; SECURITY, International
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