The smoke of battle will
clear: the scarred fields will mantle again with springtime verdure: the
fighting hosts will once more find their way to peaceful pursuit. Time
the Healer will wipe out the wounds of war.
The world already wearies of the Crimson Canvas splashed with martial
scene. Heroism has become the most commonplace of qualities: it takes a
monster thrill to move a civilisation sick of destruction. With eager
eye it looks forward to the era of regeneration. War ends some time.
Business never ceases. Under the shock of mighty upheaval it has been
dislocated by the most drastic strain ever put upon the economic
fabric. But it will march on long after Peace will have mercifully
sheathed the Sword. Therefore the permanent world problem is the
Business problem.
This is why I made two trips to Europe: why I submit this little book in
the hope that it may point the way to some realisation of the immense
responsibilities which will inevitably crowd upon the world and more
especially upon the United States.
Peace will be as great a shock as War. Hence the need of Preparedness to
meet the inevitable conflict for Universal Trade. We--as a nation--are
as unready for this emergency as we are to meet the clash of actual
physical combat. Commercial Preparedness is as vital to the national
well being as the Training for Arms.
Nor will Commerce be the only thing that we will have to reckon with.
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