 Industrialist Henry Ford believed that capitalism could conquer war, and he organized and funded a major effort of antiwar leaders traveling to Europe in 1915 to talk to diplomats in major countries about the need for prosperity and peace.Ford chartered an ocean liner and invited prominent peace activists to join him.He hoped to create enough publicity to prompt the belligerent nations to convene a peace conference and mediate an end the war, but the mission was widely mocked by the press, which referred to the liner as the “Ship of Fools” as well as the “Peace Ship”.