"Large parts of the world are faced
with starvation, while others are living in abundance. The
nations were promised liberation and justice, but we have
witnessed and are witnessing, even now, the sad spectacle
of liberating armies firing into populations who want their
independence and social equality, and supporting in those
countries by force of arms, such parties and personalities
as appear to be most suited to serve vested interests. Territorial
questions and arguments of power, obsolete though they are,
still prevail over the essential demands of common welfare
and justice."
"What
the inventive genius of mankind has bestowed upon us in
the last hundred years could have made human life care free
and happy if the development of the organizing power of
man had been able to keep step with his technical advances."
The
1932 Disarmament Conference
