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Washington and the Riddle of Peace

Washington and the Riddle of Peace

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Number of Chapters: 29

Length: 06 hours and 03 minutes

Language: English

As an observer at the WASHINGTON CONFERENCE FOR THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS held in 1921 and attended by the victorious nations of The Great War, the acclaimed author H. G. Wells wrote 29 short essays that were serialized in the New York World and other newspapers. This book is a collection of those essays. They are not a record or description of the Conference, but the impressions of one visitor. Wells noted that the failed League of Nations was the first American initiative toward an organized world peace, and in its absence “the American mind has produced this second experiment, which has been tried with the loosest of constitutions and the most severely defined and limited of aims. Instead of a world constitution we have had a world conversation.”
The essays relate “one observer’s conviction of how things can be done, and of how they need to be done, if our civilization is indeed to be rescued from the dangers that encompass it and set again upon the path of progress.” While history would not bear out all of Wells’ various expressions of optimism and pessimism, his vision of world peace nevertheless remains relevant today. ( Lee Smalley)

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Introduction, and The Immensity of the Issue and the Triviality of Men (Lee Smalley)
Armaments the Futility of Mere Limitation (Lee Smalley)
The Trail of Versailles Two Great Powers Are Silent and Absent (Lee Smalley)
The Unknown Soldier of the Great War (Lee Smalley)
The President at Arlington (Lee Smalley)
The First Meeting (Lee Smalley)
What Is Japan? (Lee Smalley)
China in the Background (Lee Smalley)
The Future of Japan (Lee Smalley)
'Security'—the New and Beautiful Catchword (Lee Smalley)
France in the Limelight (Lee Smalley)
Thus Far (Lee Smalley)
The Larger Question behind the Conference (Lee Smalley)
The Real Threat to Civilization (Lee Smalley)
The Possible Breakdown of Civilization (Lee Smalley)
What of America? (Lee Smalley)
Ebb Tide at Washington (Lee Smalley)
America and Entangling Alliances (Lee Smalley)
An Association of Nations (Lee Smalley)
France and England—the Plain Facts of the Case (Lee Smalley)
A Reminder about War (Lee Smalley)
Some Stifled Voices (Lee Smalley)
India, the British Empire and the Association of Nations (Lee Smalley)
The Other End of Pennsylvania Avenue—the Sieve for Good Intentions (Lee Smalley)
Africa and the Association of Nations (Lee Smalley)
The Fourth Plenary Session (Lee Smalley)
About the War Debts (Lee Smalley)
The Foundation Stone and the Building (Lee Smalley)
What a Stably Organized World Peace Means For Mankind (Lee Smalley)
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