It has been said that since September, 1931, the world has been divided into wholehearted violators and halfhearted supporters of the Covenant.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.