Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

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.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.