Armaments Are Necessary - Or Are Maintained

We Pacifists Have Not Ceased To Point To The Grave Danger Of Armaments And To Insist On Their Curtailment.

The Popular, And One May Say Naive, Idea Is That Peace Can Be Secured By Disarmament And That Disarmament Must Therefore Precede The Attainment Of Absolute Security And Lasting Peace.

In Life, Particularly In Public Life, Psychology Is More Powerful Than Logic.

The Following Year, After I Had Prepared My Draft, The Conference Of The Interparliamentary Union At The Hague Decided To Set Up A Special Commission To Study The Problem Seriously.

The Present Level Of Armaments Could Be Taken As The Starting Point. It Could Be Stipulated In An International Treaty That These Armaments Should Be Simultaneously And Uniformly Reduced By A Certain Proportion In All Countries.