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That would not have been admitted ten years ago. It

is only a question now of providing the alternative war'--:a Machinery cif-peace- -Caiiiiiit"-at any point break down. Public opinion, so far as we can judge, has gone appreciably ahead of what even pro- gressive statesmen regard as practicable, and it has, of course, gone very much further ahead of - technical opinion which is necessarily engaged in planning security on the old terms. If this be a just survey of the situation, it is deg& that public opinion all over the world is the most potent clement in the demand for new methods, There is scarcely any limit to the influence which public opinion can exert. The world is at last equipped with the means of disseminating that opinion.

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