WE ARE fast approaching the day when a whole generation will have come of age since the beginning of World War II. In four years, we will begin drafting young men who were just being born as the armies of Hitler swept into Poland in 1939. The generation of Americans who fought in that war are approaching middle age. Time has slipped away rapidly since the most devastating of all wars, but time has not stilled the fears of the people over war. Ours is an era of international tension, of life caught up, as Bernard Baruch put it nearly a decade ago, “between the quick and the dead.” The years have had their effect on the American people. The day-in-day-out rumble of the thunder of war—sometimes larger war, sometimes smaller outbreaks in remote parts of the earth—has had a profound impact on the American people. Strange indeed, that the world views of the people in the most pivotal nation have not been more systematically measured and analyzed. We have had pieces of information and some revealing glimpses in what seems, in retrospect, to be a hundred different crises. But rarely has the time, money, and energy been available to study underlying American attitudes on a subject that most of our people believe is the best hope for world peace: some form of world organization. This article, “American Attitudes on World Organization,” is an exposition of the results of a national survey concerned with these issues. Following it are interpretations of the findings by prominent Americans. Frank Abrams, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Company of N. J., recognizes that Americans', having accepted social evolution nationally, are now ready to support the same process in international affairs. Norman Cousins, editor of The Saturday Review, expresses concern over the effect on foreign populations of the loud anti-UN voices in the United States, but is heartened by what he views as an American willingness to provide the United Nations with all the instruments it must have to attain world peace. Paul G. Hoffman, chairman of the board of the Studebaker Corporation, describes in detail certain kinds of international trade policies to implement the kind of world cooperation Americans would like to see. Robert Hutchins, of the Ford Foundation, thinks the findings are significant because they explode current myths about the attitudes of Americans toward world affairs, and registers concern over the uncritical way Americans view our own behavior in a time of world crisis. Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, U. S. Representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, disturbed by the number of people who are sympathetic to some kind of world organization but do nothing about it, suggests ways in which citizens could be constructive. To Reinhold Niebuhr, Dean of the Faculty at Union Theological Seminary, the figures seem to mean that American internationalists are not yet prepared to pay the price of world organization. Owen Roberts, retired justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, concludes that most Americans have not thought the issues through sufficiently and points out the problems which remain for Americans to face and resolve.