Without sounding like a defeatist, we just as well realize that we come to face our task as apostles of peace with grave odds against us. Because the very thing we seek to overcome has to power to destroy the only thing capable of eliminating it. In our efforts to do away with war, we are brought to an awareness that the war demon can only survive on a diet of hate. We cannot get around this. To wage an effective war without inflaming the passions of hate is as impossible as it is futile.
Selfishness is a barrier to peace.
There are some among us whose greedy palms itch for the blood money brought by inflated wages and profits. Ignorance is one of the most destructive things in our world today. To be charitable, we say a lack of understanding is the cause of war. Put simply, though, ignorance and greed are at the bottom of it all. The only remedy for war and the only lasting aid to permanent peace is individual and national application of the Golden Rule and the gospel of world brotherhood preached, accepted and followed.