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Excerpt from America's Interests After the European War
But industrial development and civilization are bootless indeed if they are to be ruthlessly destroyed by war. Hence the vital concern to all of a more constructive basis for internationalism (page 217) without necessarily neglecting defense problems (page 263) or underestimating the effectiveness of economic pressure as a means of conserving peace (page Certainly prolific causes of inter national discontent have been land acquisition (page 245) and the desire to extend free land (page Nothing is now dearer to the heart desires of American people than the contributions America can make not only toward the settlement of the present war but toward a permanent peace (pages 230, 235, 239, and Our national well-being, the conservation of our efforts, social, political and industrial, hang in the balance. For the cable, the aeroplane, and the submarine have made nations as dependent upon each other under twentieth century conditions as are individuals. A social point of view must now be supplemented with the nationalism of a world citizen.
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