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The only large nations in the world in which the masses and especially the youth are not imbued with the spirit of war are the United States, England and France, according to Professor Hans Kohn of Smith College, in the first of his series of fifteen lectures on “Europe, 1934,” delivered last night at the New School for Social Research.
Retracing the facts of history since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Dr. Kohn’s conclusions pointed to nationalism as a chief and continuing cause of unrest even though its early protagonists had believed it would ultimately prove power for peace.
“Nationalism,” he said, “has tended only very partially to democratize armies; it has much more completely militarized democracies. The ideal of nationalism has led to an identification of the individual and the nation. The creation of the armed nation, the levee en masse, military preparedness not for the professional soldier only, has destroyed the emotional appeal of internationalism and inevitably weakened the League of Nations. The League by accepting the principle of nationalism has been unable to stem the further rise of the war spirit so that today this spirit is stronger and disarmament everywhere more remote.”
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