nable engines of destruction that science has
devised; with thrice that number chafing and fretting at the rule of alien
races and governments; with an equally vast army of embittered citizens
impotent to procure for themselves the material goods and necessities
which others are deliberately destroying; with a still greater mass of
human beings groaning under the burden of ever-mounting armaments, and
impoverished by the virtual collapse of international trade--with evils
such as these, humanity would seem to be definitely entering the outer
fringes of the most agonizing phase of its existence.

Is it to be wondered at, that in the course of a recent statement made by
one of the outstanding Ministers in Europe this warning should have been
deliberately uttered: "If war should break out again on a major scale in
Europe, it must bring the collapse of civilization as we know it in its
wake. In the words of the late Lord Bryce, 'If you don't end war, war will
end you.'" "Poor Europe is in a state of neurasthenia...", is the
testimony of one of the most outstanding figures among its present-day
dictators. "It has lost its recuperative power, the vital force of
cohesion, of synthesis. Another war would destroy us." "It is likely,"
writes one of the most eminent and learned dignitaries of the Christian
Church, "there will have to be one more great conflict in Europe to
definitely establish once and for all an international authority. This
conflict will be the most horrible of horribles, and possibly this
generation will be called on to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives."

The disastrous failure of both the Disarmament and Economic Conferences;
the obstacles confronting the negotiations for the limitation of Naval
armaments; the withdrawal of two of the most powerful and heavily armed
nations of the world from the activities and membership of the League of
Nations; the ineptitude of the parliamentary system of government as
witnessed by recent developments in Europe and America; the inability of
the leaders and exponents of the Communist movement to vindicate the
much-vaunted principle of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; the perils
and privations to which the rulers of the Totalitarian states have, in
recent years, exposed their subjects--all these demonstrate, beyond the
shadow of a doubt, the impotence of present-day institutions to avert the
calamities with which human society is being increasingly threatened. What