There are three distinct standpoints from which it is possible to launch a discussion of the problem of war in this strange and perilous age of ours that has yet to find its name. My initial assertion will be that it is a mistake to adopt any one ot them exclusively and to carry the argument on to its logical conclusion. If this is done, the argument will end in serious difficulties.

The far-from-new observation that conferences look remarkably different from the inside and from the outside was strongly reinforced in the minds of delegates to the Fifth World Order Study Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, November 18-21, under the sponsorship of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The six hundred delegates, consultants, and observers spent four days arguing a variety of subjects bearing such resounding names as “The Power Struggle and Security in a Nuclear-Space Age,” “Changing Conditions of Human Rights,” and “Overseas Areas of Rapid Social Change.“