Fulbright, Claude Pepper, Elbert D. Thomas, and other dignitaries, which began: Coming at a critical time in history with its first edition in October 1945, Reves wrote with a keen awareness of the failure of modern diplomacy and the League of Nations to prevent WWII, and shortly before the founding of the United Nations which would have successes but be plagued with its own limitations.

Reves noted that all of our attempts to create peace have been futile, whether through treaties, international leagues, socialism, capitalism, morality or religion.

Logically, according to Reves, the only way to create lasting peace is through global governance and binding international law.

Every nation needs to surrender some of its sovereignty to a global authority to support a lawful and more peaceful human society.

[7] The widely available Reader’s Digest condensed the volume, printing it in three successive issues, and it was used for a period as a textbook at Harvard, Yale and Columbia universities.