Born in 1862, Butler’s life was long and busy.
He taught and became the President of Columbia University.
He participated in the pre-WW I Hague Peace Conferences,
And helped start the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
He was a trusted advisor to Theodore Roosevelt, President,
And believed that all wars would eventually cease.
He felt that persons with influence and explicit intelligence
Were needed – or peace work could not succeed,
Yet dismissed anti-war professors from their work
For objecting to America’s WWI participation.
Knowing France and Briand, he helped to set the groundwork
For the Briand-Kellogg Pact, designed for mutual protection.
For years, Carnegie Endowment leader and a global publicist,
He said, “War between nations” is “out of date” . . . in 1946.
June Edvenson 