Time And Time Again We Have Experienced

Pacifist Propaganda And The Resolutions Of The Parliamentarians Encouraged Such Treaties, And Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century Their Number Had Increased Considerably.

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.

Let Us Assume That The Ideal Were Reached; Let Us Imagine A State Of International Life In Which The Danger Of War No Longer Exists. Then No One Would Dare To Demand A Penny For Obviously Completely Superfluous Armaments.

Great Progress Was Made When Arbitration Treaties Were Concluded In Which The Contracting Powers Pledge In Advance To Submit All Conflicts To An Arbitration Court, Treaties Which Not Only Specify The Composition Of The Court, But Also Its Procedure.

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