Peace talk evasions
âSecondly, I want to stress the fact that the new road to world peace is a complex and toilsome road with harsh and disagreeable corners and many living and sensitive, and possibly, resentful obstructions that may have to be removed.
One difficulty very fundamental and very formidable is being shirked and evaded in all this peace talk. This difficulty is the Sovereign independence of State. Until we tackle it instead of walking round and round it, we shall not make much further progress towards organised peace. We shall go on wasting our various emotions upon peace pacts, and our substance upon war preparation just as we are doing at the present moment.