ABSTRACT
In early 1965 Hans J. Morgenthau was contacted by Kurt Dreifuss of the Society for a World Service Federation. During their discussions Morgenthau recommended that Dreifuss read David Mitrany's A Working Peace System (WPS — ‘this is the Functionalist approach of Mitrany, and I agree it makes sense’). Dreifuss tried in vain to track down a copy. Refusing to give up, he ‘phoned Morgenthau who said “it is distressing but not surprising to me”’. Instead Morgenthau lent Dreifuss his own well-worn copy. 1 During the following year Dreifuss organized a republication of the original pamphlet in a collection that included other works by Mitrany. In his Introduction to this volume Morgenthau concluded that the very future of civilization now rested on the ability of the functional approach to overcome an obsolete and dangerous nationalism. 2
