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[B] Written originally as a lecture to be delivered in America.
In this paper, I want to tell you of the idea that now shapes and dominates my public life -- the idea of a world politically united -- of a world securely and permanently at peace. And I want to say what I have to say, so far as regards the main argument of it, as accurately and plainly as possible, without any eloquence or flourishes.