ABSTRACT
The feeling that war is always defensive wrecks the peace propaganda. The word defensive is capable of being stretched indefinitely. It is not confined necessarily to preventing an invasion. The constructive critics of British, French, German, Austrian, and Russian diplomacy carried in them what hope there was for peace. Those who saw the source of the friction and, tried to remedy it were the real internationalists. Peace implies not only the construction of machinery for unifying mankind, but the readiness of enough men to defend that machinery. The more serious indictment of the peace-at-any-price propaganda is that its success would mean not the abandonment of force, but the concentration of force in the least democratic empires. The strategy of peace is to use the democratic governments as organs of leadership in world politics.
