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

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

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.