The two wars in the Balkans have simply impoverished the people--left the world that much worse than it was before.

Nobody has considered the well-being or the future of those peoples nor of their land.

The Great Powers are mere threats to one another, content to check, one the other! There can come no help to the progress of the world from this sort of action--no step forward.
Work on a world-plan.

Nothing but blue chips, you know.

Is it not possible that Mexico may give an entering wedge for this kind of thing?
Heartily yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
In a memorandum, written about the same time, Mr.Page explains his idea in more detail: Was there ever greater need than there is now of a first-class mind unselfishly working on world problems?
The ablest ruling minds are engaged on domestic tasks.