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Show Business and Peace Of far more significance, perhaps, than all the efforts of diplomats and other official agencies for peace is the world-wide character which is being assumed by many basic industrial enterprises. For example, both Ford and General Gen-eral Motors are making business alliances alli-ances with automobile interests in Germany and other countries. American Amer-ican investments abroad are being made in ever increasing magnitude. Oil and nitrate interests of many countries are pooling their resources. The same is true of othe industrial activities. In some respects it appears ap-pears that business is becoming internationalized, inter-nationalized, through the formation of great cartels and trusts. But, however we may look upon these immense combinations of capital cap-ital from the standpoint of the con- 1 sumer, it can hardly be denied that they represent one of the most hope- 5 ful indications that world peace may 5 yet become a reality. After all, most WEtrs are economic wars. Those who hold the purse strings can generally dictate whether the world shall have war or peace. With capital of various nations invested in-vested in common, it becomes imperative impera-tive that business men use every resource re-source at their command to preserve peace as a matter of self protection. And when capital can not afford to see the world involved in war we may be reasonably assured that there will be no war. |