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her brother, being then president of the Naval War 

 College in the last-named place. 1 



In Boston I attended a meeting of the board of Our -plea 

 directors of the World Peace Foundation, 2 at which 

 time we drew up the first pronouncement of its kind 

 made in America after war began. In it the Founda- 

 tion pleaded for "a European concert, with a repre- 

 sentative council in place of entangling alliances and 

 ententes" We further urged "drastic reduction of 

 armament," an "international police to protect all 

 nations alike from outlaws and pirates," and "open 

 and democratic control of treaties and foreign pol- 

 icies." We also demanded as a matter of justice that 

 no territory should be transferred without the con- 

 sent of its people. But we suggested "no steps for 

 immediate action," for at this time it was "not pos- 

 sible to devise any way of reaching the war-making 

 authorities in the leading nations." 



This was the last meeting held by the directors, Peace a 

 the trustees, after Mr. Mead's illness following his lostcause 

 return from Europe, having modified the policy of 

 the Foundation and later limited its efforts mainly 

 to the reprinting of documents. A somewhat similar 

 course was naturally adopted by the Carnegie Peace 

 Endowment, 3 the idea being that attempts to influ- 

 ence Europe would be futile and possibly mis- 

 chievous. But with the Endowment as with the 

 Foundation, work for peace was encouraged until 

 America's entry into war seemed imminent. After 

 that all such efforts were sure to be misinterpreted 

 and had to be practically abandoned. The time to 



1 See Vol. I, Chapter xiv, page 326. 



2 See Chapter xxxvi, pages 291-292. 

 * See Chapter xxxvn, pages 338-342. 



