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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.