s will have it all their own way, and our action will
be a stimulus to similar action in Germany, and that action will
again re-act on ours, and so on _ad infinitum._

Why is not some concerted effort made to create in both countries
the necessary public opinion, by encouraging the study and
discussion of the elements of the case, in some such way, for
instance, as that adopted by Mr. Norman Angell in his book?

One organization due to private munificence has been formed and is
doing, within limits, an extraordinarily useful work, but we can
only hope to affect policy by a much more general interest--the
interest of those of leisure and influence. And that does not seem
to be forthcoming.

My own work, which has been based quite frankly on Mr. Angell's
book, has convinced me that it embodies just the formula most
readily understanded of the people. It constitutes a constructive
doctrine of International Policy--the only statement I know so
definitely applicable to modern conditions.

But the old illusions are so entrenched that if any impression is
to be made on public opinion generally, effort must be persistent,
permanent, and widespread. Mere isolated conferences, disconnected
from work of a permanent character, are altogether inadequate for
the forces that have to be met.

What is needed is a permanent and widespread organization embracing
Trades Unions, Churches and affiliated bodies, Schools and
Universities, basing its work on some definite doctrine of
International Policy which can supplant the present conceptions of
struggle and chaos.

I speak, at least, from the standpoint of experience; in the last
resort the hostility, fear and suspicion which from time to time
gains currency among the great mass of the people, is due to those
elementary misconceptions as to the relation of prosperity, the
opportunities of life, to military power. So long as these
misconceptions are dominant, nothing is easier than to precipitate
panic and bad feeling, and unless we can modify them, we shall in
all human probability drift into conflict; and this incident of
Lord Roberts' speech and the comment which it has provoked, show
that for some not very well defined reason, Liberals, quite as much
as Conservatives, by implication, accept the axio