In the American Jungle by Waldo David Frank

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_i. War Is with Us Now To the First United States Congress Against War, Held in New York, 1933_

Two thousand delegates from every part of the country, and of every shade of progressive opinion, are meeting in New York in a Congress Against War. A most laudable enterprise; and a most needed. For war threatens the world; and with war, civilization, still staggering from the blows of the last conflict, may definitely founder. The crisis is immediate and tragic. But no congress of good men can avert it. All that this congress can do is to bring men's consciousness to focus upon the present danger; and to raise men's consciousness to the pitch of intensity where it becomes action.

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