12 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 25

In a well-meaning but somewhat inopportune pamphlet called War Abolished

(35 Monsell Road, London, ld.), Mr. 0. F. Maclagan suggests that universal peace might be attained by a general agreement that all the nations of the world would combine to coerce any Power which began a war. "Let us be prepared ourselves to back it up, if need be, with an army of three million men." It is curious that the would-be pacifist seems to require far larger armaments than any one else contemplates. The principle of adequate preparation is, however, sound enough.