A Pacifist Will Often - At Least

Earlier Ages Fortified Themselves Behind The Sovereign State, Behind Protectionism And Militarism.

Just As Characteristic, Perhaps, Is The Intellectual Interdependence Created Through The Development Of The Modern Media Of Communication: Post, Telegraph, Telephone, And Popular Press.

Internationalism Is A Social And Political Theory, A Certain Concept Of How Human Society Ought To Be Organized, And In Particular A Concept Of How The Nations Ought To Organize Their Mutual Relations.

History Shows Us That Other Highly Developed Forms Of Civilization Have Collapsed. Who Knows Whether The Same Fate Does Not Await Our Own?

It Is Against This Concept Of The Sovereign State, A State Isolated By Protectionism And Militarism, That Internationalism Must Now Engage In Decisive Battle.