THIS
TROUBLED
WORLD
THIS
TROUBLED
WORLD
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
MCMXXXVIII
H. C. KINSEY & COMPANY, INC.
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1938, by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Printed in the U.S.A. by J. J. Little & Ives, N.Y.
FIRST EDITION
To
MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
who has led so many of us
in the struggle for peace
CONTENTS
| THE CASE AS IT STANDS | 1 |
| ULTIMATE OBJECTIVES | 14 |
| IMMEDIATE STEPS | 27 |
| SUMMARY | 44 |
THIS TROUBLED WORLD
1
THE CASE AS IT STANDS
The newspapers these days are becomingmore and more painful. I was readingmy morning papers on the train not so longago, and looked up with a feeling of desperation.Up and down the car people were reading,yet no one seemed excited.
To me the whole situation seems intolerable.We face today a world filled with suspicionand hatred. We look at Europe andsee a civil war going on, with other nationsparticipating not only as individual volunteers,but obviously with the help and approvalof their governments. We look at theFar East and see two nations, technically notat war, killing each other in great numbers.
2
Every nation is watching the others on itsborders, analyzing its own needs and strivingto attain its ends with little consideration forthe needs of its neighbors. Few people aresitting down dispassionately to go over thewhole situation in an attempt to determinewhat present conditions are, or how theyshould be met.
We know, for instance, that certain nationstoda