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 Twenty-Five years ago optimistic guesswork was made the basis of peace at Versailles and the result was utter failure, Schwarzschild says. The popular inference from this today is to accept pessimistic guesswork.
 However, Schwarzschild does not go all out for pessimism. He is in favor of leaving out the guesswork altogether. Remilitarization of Ger many at least until the youth of to- day is doddering in age, is an ac- cepted axiom of the coming peace. But how will it be accomplished? What is to prevent another nation from becoming militaristic and to assume the williams role which Ger many plays today?
 Even the problem of reparations is bothersome. Germany should pay, but how? To these questions Sch- warzschild gives realistic answers. He warns against pitfalls and even when he points out that something might work, he tells us that nothing IS likely to last forever.
 And: "A third German world war would be worse than just another war; it might very well be war in conditions of deeper and more vide spread demoralization than this one," he says. Tt must not happen" !" he declares.
 He concludes, in analysing the situation, that 1t is not an exag- gerated hope that in fields of uni- versal peace and permanent well- being, great things will come to pass.
 "But in order to make them at tainable remain moderate. The world has the prospect of long peace and of progressively greater we'll being if 1t does not fall victim to the illusion of absolute and total solutions" CAN'T HURRY PEACE
 SHOTWEIL,, Columbia University authority on history and member of the preparatory committee for the peace conference in 1917-18, is a recognized figure in international relations, politics and economies. And after decrying the fumbles made by world bigwigs to secure a permanent peace after the last war, he sums up his opinion by stating:
 "The one thing that is perfectly clear is that they international problens) cannot be left to the hazard of sudden improvisation in houw of crises. Hardly less im- portnnt than the prevention of a third world war is the prevention of a second world economic de- pression, for in the disorders which 1t would breed lie the roots of war itself"
 Tn this statement, you can see that Gchwarzschild - that we can't jump into p c e immediately after the war; that we ought to start now to prepare everyone concerned for a lot of groundwork.
 The brilliant Bartlett, professor of history at Tufts College, traces the history of The League to En- force Peace. Organized in 1915 by such men as Hamilton Holt. A. Lawrence Lowell, and William Howard Taft. it became one of the most powerful instruments that led up to American participation in the League of Nations.
 Vaccinations of the organizations that resulted in our abandoning the League after President Wilson or ganized it are thoroughly discussed in this book, with no punches pull ed. The author gives you plenty or takes made in making the peace, meat to chew on in citing past mis- mistakes we should avoid after this war.
 MAPPING THE WAR
 EVERYBONES "map-happy" in following the progress of the war on various fronts. For that reason two recent books will meet with favor Look at the World" drawn by Richard Edes Harrison for the edi- GGf8 Q4 EOftutlC nA16dNAAAN NN~St~ S3.50). and Down to Earth" by David Greenhood and Ralph Grae- ter Holiday House: $D.
 Harrison has treated his maps dii- ferently. He has drawn them from the viewpoint of the air age in or der to show Americans why We are fighting in strange places and why trade follows various routes.
 It is difficult to visualize the in- terrelationship of lands spread over the surface of a sphere. We have come to believe that the north must be at the top of the page. which distOrts the projection.
 Maps in this unusual atlas at- tempt to free the reader Of the harness of conventional projection. Teachers, as well as laymen, will