| Show I isolating the germs of war commenting in the independent on the alms of the walter blines page school ot of international relations being founded at johns hopkins university baltimore owen D young private citizen ot of the united states but one of the worlds greatest men says nations through their diplomatic services collect facts of 0 tremendous importance but in the nature of 0 things diplomatic intelligence is to promote national interest consequently there is need tor for disinterested study by men fully as acute as the diplomats but who stand quite outside their circle of interest and whose future do not depend upon the success or fail failure ure of any national aim or policy the walter mines hines page school of 0 international relations plans to begin this study in a modest way and grow up to its full opportunity by degrees the cooperation of all american universities versi ties will permit the work to go forward in a large way at small cost I 1 dream of 0 the time when similar units in japan england france and elsewhere will be making contributions to the worlds store of facts on international relations this generation cannot reasonably hope that its posterity will be super men but our successors will be able to do their work tar far better it if we do our level best to provide them with facts acts now unknown but merely awaiting discovery that lg is a big job but surely not too big tor for a generation which has seen what we have seen and which is marching from one triumph to another in so many lines ot of thought and work |
