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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.

Pacifist Propaganda And The Resolutions Of The Parliamentarians Encouraged Such Treaties, And Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century Their Number Had Increased Considerably.

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.

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.