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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt:...of these Debates with explanatory matter be published. It is now in press under the editorship of Mr. Gaillard Hunt and the Director, and will be laid before the Trustees at their meeting on April 16 of the present year. The Director prepared a little book on the subject which was issued by the Oxford University Press in 1918, entitled James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations. A considerable number of copies have been distributed by direction of the Executive Committee and the Director understands that a second edition is in press. The Director would like to call attention, before leaving this phase of the subject, to a larger work of the same general nature entitled The United States of America--A Study in International Organization, which the Executive Committee has authorized to be issued as a publication of the Endowment. It will be issued in the fall. The Future of International Organization The Director believes that the road to progress runs from the Hague Conferences to a distant and ever receding horizon. He believes that nations are only willing to try on an international scale those things which have been tried within national lines and which have been successful. He believes in an infinite series of little steps, not in any one leap, however attractive the prospect may be. The world rights itself after a great war, and the next generation picks up the threads of the past. The Perpetual Peace of the Abbe de St. Pierre was the outcome of the Congress of Utrecht, ending the wars of the Austrian succession. The Holy Alliance was the outcome of the Congress of Vienna ending the wars of the French Revolution. The project of the good Abbe has failed; the Holy Alliance has...