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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.

-Ludwig Quidde

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The Present Level Of Armaments Could Be

Ludwig Quidde

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.

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Time And Time Again We Have Experienced Efforts Directed Toward This Popular And Simple Concept Of Securing Peace By Means Of Disarmament.

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.

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.

Among Pacifists It Was Above All The English Who Always Insisted On The Importance Of Disarmament. They Said That The Man In The Street Would Not Understand The Kind Of Pacifism That Neglected To Demand Immediate Restriction Of Armaments.

Thus, If Armaments Were Curtailed Without A Secure Peace And All Countries Disarmed Proportionately, Military Security Would Have Been In No Way Affected.

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