Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916 — John Shaqi
Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
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Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
Peace; World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
What we have to face, then, is not the extinction or abandonment of
internationalism, but the fact that the ideal, the all-embracing and
thoroughly rational internationalism lies far in the future, and that
before it can be attained we must have that partial internationalism
which is practically the same thing as the widening of nationalism that
is achieved when nations coöperate in leagues or combine in federations.
The league of peace may be academic or it may soon stand forth as a
tremendous piece of realism, we do not know which, but the forces that
are holding many of the nations together in military coöperation now are
present realities, and they will be realities after the military war is
over. There will still be tariffs, but the areas within which tariff
barriers will no longer be maintained will be immensely widened. Beyond
these areas will be, as now, various arrangements of reciprocity. In like
manner, there will be a determination on the part of the coöperating
nations to stand together for the enforcement of international agreements
and to discipline a law-breaking state that would needlessly resort to
arms. The internationalism of commerce, of travel, of communication, of
intellectual exchange and moral endeavor will continue to grow throughout
the world, but in addition there will be the more definite, the more
concrete internationalism of the nations that agree in making common
cause for the attainment of specific ends.
Within this relatively restricted internationalism there will be,
there is now, a certain yet more definite aggregation of peoples,
interests, and traditions upon which rests a great and peculiar moral
responsibility. The English-speaking people of the world are together the
largest body of human beings among whom a nearly complete intellectual
and moral understanding is already achieved. They have reached high
attainments in science and the arts, in education, in social order, in
justice. They are highly organized, they cherish the traditions of their
common history. To permit anything to endanger the moral solidarity
of this nucleus of a perfected internationalism would be a crime
unspeakable. To strengthen it, to make it one of the supreme forces
working for peace and humanity is a supreme obligation.
FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS.
CONCERNING THE AUTHORS QUOTED
Jane Addams has been head resident at Hull House in Chicago for many
years. She is widely known for her leadership in the social movement, and
particularly for her connection with the International Congress of Women
at The Hague.
Norman Angell is the author of “The Great Illusion,” and one of the most
brilliant of the workers in the cause of peace. He is also the author of
“International Polity,” “Arms and Industry,” and “The World’s Highway.”
Ed. Bernstein is one of the leaders of the German Social Democracy of the
revisionist wing.
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