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 relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

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

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.

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.