Professor Kennedy is a decent liberal who hopes for the victory of the brotherhood of man. He begins this study of the UN, its history, successes, failings and prospects for reform by quoting Tennyson’s ‘Locksley Hall’:
Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the
battle-flags were furl’d
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of
the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a
fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in
universal law.
In his Afterword, he does remind us that Tennyson revised his optimism 60 years later:
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