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

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

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

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

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

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.