Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. (Lester B. Pearson)

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Lester B. Pearson

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