ABSTRACT
A France inherently bellicose might be inferred from what has thus far been said. To some persons it may cause surprise that a government which insists so stoutly on an education profoundly patriotic, should at the same time accord recognition to the international ideal. In June 1924, the Minister of Education sent a circular to educational leaders throughout France, asking them to urge the teachers in the various grades of instruction to lay stress on the League of Nations in their teaching, to emphasize not only the institution itself, but the history of the idea. “If the Society of Nations, as it exists at present, does not yet bring the peoples of the world security and peace, at least it offers the sole means of realizing them.” A more radical influence making for the world peace is associated with the syndicalist movement among the teachers.
