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Chapter VIII
War and Peace — International Misrepresentation —
Does Hollywood Want War? — Giving America
Away — War Films — The Way of Peace
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THE greatest and most urgent problem of the present generation is that of war and peace. Science and engineering have made it imperative that a basis for permanent world peace be found in order to avert the possibility of a war with modern weapons which would tumble our cities into dust and destroy man, woman, and beast without distinction.
So far no student of the subject has declared that it is possible for modern warfare to destroy all living things, and yet, appalling and impossible as such a catastrophe may seem, it is now no longer a dream of the freak novelist. The gases and explosives which many of the world's finest brains spend their powers in perfecting for diabolical ends are so deadly that they could wipe out a nation and leave no living thing within their range.
Conferences may sit and Governments may meet, but the real solving of the problem rests with the people. It is they who fight when war comes, and it is they who give their lives in the vain pursuit of glory. Separately, they are all for peace; collectively, they go with the wind, whether it whirls them to death or wafts them to peace. In all things the people are led, and led easily. That is why the World War lasted nearly five years. It was the people's war; they fought it collectively and paid the price separately.
But behind it all was the great machine of suggestion. Each man who gave his life for his country did so because he had come to certain conclusions based on what he had heard and what he had been shown, but not, be it noticed, on what he had seen for himself. In other words, he reacted to propaganda. His decisions were