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Show that our diplomats are unable to4 keep up with the wily negotiators of other countries. Once more the country will be told that any agreement will involve in-volve commitments which will inevitably in-evitably get us into war. Certainly, such a result is possible, but our experience since the first World War should teach us that it is worthwhile to take some risks in the hope of maintaining peace. COUNTRY TOLD TO TAKE RISK FOR PEACE For many years, the people of the United States have been told that this country never lost a war or won a conference. The conference idea is nonsense, of course, but its existence promotes pro-motes isolationist senitment and prevents the United States from entering into effective agreements with other nations. Now that it appears that isolation isola-tion did not prevent this country from becoming embroiled in war, it is well to observe that it would have been economical for us to lose a few conferences, if, by so doing, we could have avoided the present struggle. Our experience will not prevent certain Americans from asserting, when the war ends, that the United Unit-ed States should avoid all cooperation coop-eration with other nations. The same argument will be advanced, |