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Show " ' PEACE IN THE INTEREST OF ALL The idea that the United States must consult its Allies at this time and secure agreements about postwar post-war developments is based upon the delusion that such commitments will be sufficient to preserve peace. The sooner we understand that the peace of the world can be safe only when it is to the interest of the nations of the earth to preserve it, the quicker we will be blessed with peace. No nation, in its right mind, is going to continue indefinitely to support any agreement that works against the self-interest of the nation. This rule applies ap-plies to our Allies as well as to our enemies. All that we can hope for is that the Allied Nations, after winning a great victory, will be wise enough to understand that their self-interest self-interest has a long-range, as well as a short-range, short-range, view. This long-range viewpoint emphasizes the gains which will come to all peoples through the establishment establish-ment of peace. It even leads them to understand that temporary disadvantages may bring future advan- tages. The observation has point in relation to the United States. We have never been reluctant re-luctant to establish nationalistic policies, re-. re-. gardless of their effect upon other nations. It might be wise for us to carefully consider the long-range effect of certain selfish policies. If they produce another world war, neither the people of the United States nor the Government itself will gain anything from a short-range viewpoint that is clouded cloud-ed and obscured by selfishness. |