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WORLD PEACE

OR

PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
IN THEIR APPLICATION TO EFFORTS
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE
PEACE OF THE WORLD

BY

FRED H. ALDRICH

DETROIT BAR

LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE

DETROIT COLLEGE OF LAW

1921

DETROIT

FRED S. DRAKE

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MAY 27 1921

Copyright, 1921 By Fred H. Aldrich

WORLD PEACE

INTRODUCTION

The cycles of the world's history are punctuated by great events that mark the epochs in its onward sweep. It seems as though the course of nature is to move slowly for long periods and then, with strength gathered through years or even centuries of sluggish inactivity, to leap forward at one bound into a reformed or rejuvenated world. Creasy, in his Decisive Battles of the World, in fifteen master strides, carries the student forward from Marathon to Waterloo. The close student of history, however, discovers in every period preceding a great event the natural forces quietly forming, of which the epoch producing event is but the culmination.

After the long periods of preparation or inactivity things happen rapidly and events more precipitantly. The actors upon the stage do not pause to weigh the effects of their actions, or seem to consciously control their

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