Excerpt from An Open Letter to the Nation With Regard to a Peace Plan Which requires no international agree ments, calls for no new tribunals or other machinery of operation and Will involve no change in present governmental practices: Which is not offered as a substitute for such proposed solutions of the war problem as arbitration, disarmament, etc., but as an aid toward the development of a public sentiment for such measures: Which does not suggest the immediate abolition of war, an obvious impossibility until public sentiment shall demand its abolition, but Which provides for the auto matic direction and acceleration of public thought toward the ideal of peace instead of toward the ideal of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.