Excerpt from We Must Find a Basis for Peace We can take some comfort from the mounting evidence that the Soviet Union does not want war. We certainly do not. But the fact that Russia does not want war and we do not want war is no guarantee that a war might not break out. Unfortunately, the psychology generated by an armaments race is such that some untoward incident might start a chain of events that could plunge us into a war that no one wants. Under the circumstances we have no choice but to support the stupendous effort that the free world is making to maintain a military stalemate with Russia by balancing terror with terror. It is a distressing but vital necessity in order to deter aggression and to give us time to move toward a real peace. However, the notion that our present stalemate resembles peace or brings us nearer to it is absurd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.