Excerpt from Advocate of Peace, 1921, Vol. 83 We are not in favor of special compacts, partial in their range, dealing with this important phase of the peace movement. The process should be general in scope and inclusive in its range. It must be so devised as to avoid making the already strong nations stronger and the already weak less able to resist aggression. It should be a gradual and not a summary process, and take into account some present commitments that can not in honor be ignored. Most important of all, the ...
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Excerpt from Advocate of Peace, 1921, Vol. 83 We are not in favor of special compacts, partial in their range, dealing with this important phase of the peace movement. The process should be general in scope and inclusive in its range. It must be so devised as to avoid making the already strong nations stronger and the already weak less able to resist aggression. It should be a gradual and not a summary process, and take into account some present commitments that can not in honor be ignored. Most important of all, the drive needs conscience as well as commercialism back of it. Reduction of tax burdens, setting free for constructive purposes vast sums now paid for military upkeep, and return to creative industry of millions of men - these are all desirable. But a higher motive for disarmament is needed than these imply, if the fight for peace is to be won ultimately. There must be widely diffused love of right rather than might, of reliance on an international court rather than on an international army, and steady hatred of combat, especially the kind that modern applied science now makes possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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