I SUSPECT that the "verdict of history" upon the last quarter of a century would be one of amazement that the responsible adults living in the world at that moment had been unable to avert the great war which resulted in the annihilation of 10,000,000 people. The occurrence of such a catastrophe must have been due to the lack of adequate political arrangements between the nations so that when difficult international situations arose the statesmen were unable to compose them.
It must inevitably appear to the historian of the future that the commercial and industrial development of the world outran the political arrangements, that there was no morality vigorous enough and sufficiently international in outlook to curb the possibility of such disaster.
Those of us who have lived through this quarter of a century and may live into the next quarter will never know what the world would have been had the millions of young men killed in the war survived and been able to bring to its tangled affairs their enthusiasm and understanding.
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