To Cyril Coniston Clemens
Via Santo Stefano Rotondo, 6
Rome, March 20, 1946
[T]hey don’t seem to me to see the real difficulty in establishing a universal peace. It is not a question of votes or meetings or public opinion, but of the force that will impose any decisions that may be agreed upon verbally.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Seven, 1941-1947. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006.
Location of manuscript: William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham NC