Angell was British, educated in England and France,
Who moved to the U.S. and then back to Europe, to advance
As a journalist. From correspondent to Paris editor,
And from many contacts, he became a writer.
Publishing The Great Illusion made him globally famous.
He detailed that war is a losing economic quantity
For both aggressors and defenders, without justifiable aims.
His analysis of reparations, called “indemnity futility,”
Suggested its uselessness in ‘levelling the field,’
And that free trade and education would cause men to yield
To Peace, and war could by social process become extinct.
He lectured and travelled for years, supporting such thinking.
He urged his own nomination on many for the prize –
And got it this year – for his economics on war analysis.
June Edvenson 