The Modern Language Association of America as a chartered and incorporated learned society, national in scope and partly international in membership, engaged primarily in scholarly interchange, is necessarily averse to war as being inimical to its primary concerns. The Utopia of the Association requires peace on earth, good will among men. Its membership, however, is made up almost wholly of patriotic American citizens, bound together by a special interest and proficiency in modern languages, and sharing with similar bodies in the techniques of research.