taking will need rest and on which its permanency will depend is a primary
religious precept.
What, then, can one suggest to Marshall Stalin? One cannot negotiate in a
vacuum: a formula is essential. The dangers of inaction are often greater
than mistaken methods chosen.
Many of the great questions which confront the world today are
interdependent. For example, one of the most essential is disarmament of
certain nations to prevent a relapse into war- this can lead to reduction
of armaments by all nations, curtailing the crushing burden of armaments
upon the backs of the people. Another armament race would breed another
war. The present war has drained the economic world to its dregs. All
nations have suffered as never before. The burden of war debt will be
borne by generations unborn. The need for control of armaments production
and reduction seems obvious.
The developed strength of Russia and its greater potential due to
unlimited natural resources, a great and growing population, its
victorious position in Europe, must be realized, and extension of
cooperative arrangments already accomplished must be undertaken in the
interest of world peace.
Prompt creation of a world organization, even while the war progreses,
will pave the way, future security being guaranteed, to solve many of the
problems created by the present war and aid in earlier reconstuction and
rehabilitation.