The success of our national experiments in “audacious
friendliness”――returning the Boxer indemnity to China, feeding the
children of Europe, aiding stricken Japan; the success of Ramsay
MacDonald’s pursuit of the same policy, which changed the atmosphere of
Europe markedly for the better in six months; the success of Herriot
in his policy of “rapprochement” with Germany, following Poincare’s
ghastly failure with coercion――all this goes to show that international
relations are but human problems and that the spirit that “removes”
our personal “mountains” will be similarly triumphant between nations.
Our realists are going to discover some day to their astonishment that
the “practical” policy they are seeking, the policy that will bring
security with justice and peace, is this very policy of audacious
friendliness functioning through appropriate machinery. We can climb up
to peace in no other way.