ABSTRACT
Democratic government seemed everywhere triumphant; the establishment of the League of Nations seemed to provide machinery through which disarmament and the peaceful settlement of international disputes might be expected. Once the attack had been launched, the technological foundations of modern warfare made it rapidly assume the character of a world-struggle far more intense, and much wider in its implications, than the war of 1914-18. It has become certain that fascism must either triumph completely or be defeated completely; between these alternatives there is no middle way. And if one assume the defeat of fascism, the problem of international relationships at once presses itself upon us as, in substance, the problem left unsolved by the authors of the Peace of Versailles—that of the productive relations of the modern world. The resources required by the technology and scale of modern warfare have already made sovereignty impossible for minor states.
