A world in perplexity . £Mff*fMtj^m^ ^li^S#Bi f 1 © Boston Ph< t N Co A Corps of Japans Well-Trained Nurses Leaving for the Battl« Front afford to sever them. A great war, a world war, wasabsurd. It was unthinkable. It was impossible. Andin this view we were merely voicing again whathad been asserted in peace circles for a number ofyears. ... Hope Vitiates Judgment Here is an instance where pacifists allowed theirhope to vitiate their judgment. They proclaimed theirability to gauge contemporary history, and they made atotal miscalculation. The impossible war came. Arma- Vai7i Efforts for Pe
A world in perplexity . £Mff*fMtj^m^ ^li^S#Bi f 1 © Boston Ph< t N Co A Corps of Japans Well-Trained Nurses Leaving for the Battl« Front afford to sever them. A great war, a world war, wasabsurd. It was unthinkable. It was impossible. Andin this view we were merely voicing again whathad been asserted in peace circles for a number ofyears. ... Hope Vitiates Judgment Here is an instance where pacifists allowed theirhope to vitiate their judgment. They proclaimed theirability to gauge contemporary history, and they made atotal miscalculation. The impossible war came. Arma- Vai7i Efforts for Peace 59 geddon confounded the prophets. The war took mostof us in America by surprise. . Many of us held acomfortable philosophy of social evolution — somethingto the effect that mankind was moving from a past stateof predatory struggle, through a present state of com-mercial rivalry, to a future state of world co-operation.* Then a preposterous thing happened.—* The Pos-sible Peace, by Roland Hugins, pp. 3-6,. © Keystone View Co. United States Marines Drilling at a Southern Cantonment Peace Leagues Not of Modern Origin Peace societies are not altogether of modern organizations were formed centuries ago. ThePeace of Westphalia, drawn up in 1648 by the nationsthat had been exhausted by the Thirty Years War,made a bold stand for a lasting peace. Article I ofthe Osnabriick document declares: There shall be aChristian, universal, and perpetual peace and a realand sincere friendship between the nations enteringinto the treaty. But devastating wars continued.
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