The Time for Decision Author:Sumner Welles (from the Foreward) — ... the course of events in Europe between the two great wars and the gradually changing policy of the US as the world approached catastrophe. [The author's...] mission to Europe in 1940 when the president sent [him] to ascertain whether there remained any possibility of ... peace. — .. a plan for what seems an effective wor... more »ld organization and the part this country must take if we are to have any reasonable hope of enduring peace.