The action of the United States indicated that the hopes of the people ran to the reorganization of the world in such a way as would substitute the arbitrament of courts for that of war.

Year by year the nation committed itself more strongly to cooperation foreshadowing such an organization.

While this feeling was growing among the people, the number of those who doubted whether such a system could ward off war altogether and forever also increased.

Looking forward to the probability of war, they could not fail to fear that the next would prove a world war, and that in the even of such a conflict, the noninterference of the United States would not suffice to preserve it immune in any real independence.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Each President's "Annual Message" always gives a brief survey of the international relations of the year and often makes suggestions of future policy.

Of these the most famous is Monroe's message in 1823.
Since 1860 they have been accompanied by a volume of "Foreign Relations", giving such correspondence as can be made public at the time.