Abstract

“It is no wonder that the old English word foe has awakened from its archaic four-hundred year slumber and in the last two decades acquired again general currency beside the word enemy. How is it possible, in an age that simultaneously produces the nuclear means of destruction and blurs die distinction between war and peace, also to obstruct serious consideration of the distinction of friend and enemy? The great problem is still the containment of war, and this is either a cynical game, die arrangement of a dogfight, or an empty self-delusion if it is not, from bodi sides, bound widi a relativization of enmity.”