TILE SECURITY PROBLEM.
That went far towards solving the security problem, at any rate for the moment, leaving the questions of arbitration and disarmament to be tackled afresh. On the first point the Assembly had before it a motion by Dr. Nansen, calling for the preparation of a general arbitration treaty, the signatories of which would bind themselves to settle by peaceful means all disputes of whatever character arising between them. Signa- ture of such an undertaking would, of course, be entirely optional. On the second point, it was necessary to reckon with the pressure justifiably exerted by Germany for a fulfil- ment of the treaty pledges whereby the Allied Powers disarmed her in order to make it possible for them and other nations to, reduce their own armaments.
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