The League of Nations
Disarmament Once More
DISARMAMENT is a word to fill most people with impatience. To the ordinary person it is unthinkable that when everybody wants Disarmament it cannot be brought about by agreement. War has long been outlawed by public opinion ; there is a Court at the Hague to settle disputes, not to mention the League and all it stands for as an organ of international life ; and now war has been solemnly renounced by the Govern- ments of the world, yet the nations are armed to the teeth precisely as in 1914—if anything, more so. How much longer are we to be fobbed off with futile conferences and permanent commissions ? That so much of this feeling is justified can hardly be gainsaid, and a heavy moral responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the statesmen whose ineffectiveness has allowed so many an opportunity to slip by. But to indulge such feelings is idle.
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