Precis Paragraph 5

What, than, are he prospects of a single government for the whole world? Unfortunately they are not very promising. Two attempts have been made within the last forty years to bring the nations together, first, in the League of Nations which was created after the 1914-1918 war; secondly, in the United Nations Organization which was the product of the last war. Neither of these associations has, however, been very successful. The League of Nations was helpless to prevent the Second World War,, and its successor, the United Nations Organization, seems to have no authority over the great powers. How, indeed, could it have such authority when it is without armed forces to impose it? Many-people think that the only way in which the nations of the world can be brought together under the control of a single world government is through the domination of the rest by a single power, as the European world was dominated by Rome in the centuries immediately succeeding the birth of Christ. America is the most likely candidate for world domination, but is difficult to see how such domination could be achieved without at last one more war, since it is inconceivable that Russia, as at present governed and motivated, would submit to it. In such a war it is all too likely that some of the modern methods of destruction would be used with terrible results. (220 words)