Nevertheless, even the most benign and powerful of these nation-groups had still to consider everything outside of itself as potential enemy, and the… - Vera Stanley Alder

Anyone who tries to think or write about the world situation to-day needs courage. The subject is so enormous and so complicated that it is bewildering. It is a period in history vibrating with possibilities. The pessimist is able to wallow in forebodings until he submerges, whilst the optimist can be so stimulated that he nears combustion! Which of them is justified?

The second element in the framework of our design must be the realization of universal unity. This fact is only just beginning to permeate into men’s consciousness.

Finally came the conceptions of Federation and of Commonwealth. This saw the emergence of a new concept of co-operation instead of tyranny, and of the rights of the individual instead of those of the autocrat.