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“Nor may we overlook that great doctrine of neutrality set up under Washington himself and Jefferson and Hamilton, which was aimed at and brought about the localizing of international armed conflicts, and the preservation , under prescribed rules, of peacetime intercourse between belligerents and nonbelligerents. War was to curse as few people as possible.
This has been jettisoned for the concept that every war should involve all nations, making all suffer the ravages of a global war.
“Until the last quarter of a century, this gospel of the Fathers was the polar star by which we set our international course. In the first hundred thirty years of our constitutional existence, we had three foreign wars, the first merely the final effort of our Revolution, which made good our independence. During the century that followed we had two foreign wars, neither of considerable magnitude. During the next twenty-three years, we had two global wars.
While the gospel of the Fathers guided us we has peace. When we forsook it, two great wars engulfed us
.”
(
J. Reuben Clark
,
Let Us Have Peace
,
Church News
, November 22, 1947.)
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