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1. Chisholm, G. B.; Fortas, Abe; Wallace, Henry A.; Miller, Watson B.; Hyde, Anthony; Hamilton, Samuel W. The Reestablishment of Peacetime Society. These are the second series of the William Alanson White Memorial Lectures. Fortas gives an appreciation of Chisholm's Lectures. Chisholm says no nation will ever again be able to formulate its policies on the basis of isolationism. All people now are world citizens. The next time a self styled master race prepares, it will succeed, if the rest of the world continues its old patterns. Two other possibilities are to train to strike first and to find and take sure steps to prevent wars in the future. The sciences have the responsibility of charting the changes necessary in human behavior. At least three requirements are basic to any hope of permanent world peace. 1—Security, elimination of the occasion for valid fear of aggression. This could be done by legislation and combined force to stop any ruthless appeals to force; there would be high arbitration of world disputes. 2—Opportunity to live reasonably comfortably for all the people in the world on economic levels which do not vary too widely either geographically or by groups within a population. This is a simple matter of distribution. The trouble is that there are few people mature and without neurotic necessities. There have never been enough mature people in the right places. And 3—There should be enough people in the world mature and without neurotic necessity. This has never before oc