Mere Limi
Armamenl
Declares
(Continued from First Page.)
cruel and barbarous, to enforee
4Mry or avert disaster. Success
stifis every expedient in warfare,
ad yeu cannot prevent that being so
A nation, hoping to win and after
make friends with Its enemy or
i tous for the approval of some
t rful neutral may conceivably re
fm ee ts, but that is a volun
ryand strategic restraint. The
remains that war is an ultimate
illimitable thing; war that can
centrolled is a war that could have
stopped or prevented. If our
gPce can really bar the use of poison
gas it can bar the use of any kind
gf weapon. It is indeed easier to
emfore peace altogether ithan any
lesser limitation of war.
But it is argued that this much
may be true, nevertheless, that if
the nations of the world will agree
beforehand not to prepare for par
tlcular sorts of war or If they will
agree to reduce their military and
usval equipment to a minimum this
will operate powerfully in prevent
i contraventions and In a phase of
popular excitement arresting the
rush toward war. The only objec
tion to this admirable proposal is
that no power which has desires or
rights that can only be satisfied or
ended, so far as it knows, by war
will ever enter into such a disarma
ment agreement in good faith.
Of course countries contemplat
lag war and having no serious in
tion of disarming effectually
will enter quite readily into con
' ferences upon disarmament, but
they will do so partly because of
$he excellent propaganda value of
such a participation and mainly
because of the chance it gives them
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of some regrctom whih will hem.
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more than it will hamper them
selves.
For stes4, Japan ud p.
abl be ve'.,' ry We to rAeue her
figures if t United S s8 redes
their# to the saesyse mout, beeed
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diu" of sction of 1,000 eWlas or lean
bees.s that would give her a
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the great war. Neither party be
lieved in the peaceful intentions of
the other nor regarded thee ne
gotiations as anything but strategic
moves. And as thlngs were in
Europe it was diffict to regard
them in any other way.
No, the limitation of armaments
quite as much as a mitigation of
warfare is i until war has
been made ip bla, and then the
complete extinction of armaments
follows without discussion: and war
can only be made impossible when
the powers of the world have done
what the thirteen original States
of the American Union found they
had to do after their independence
was won, and that is set up a com
mon law and rule over themselves.
Such a project is a montrously
dificult one, no doubt, and it !lies
in the face of a great masses of
patrotic cant and of nat prej
udices and natural spion, but
it is a thing that can be done. It
is the only thing that can be done
to avert the destruction of civiliza
tion through war and war prepara
tion.
Merging of Sovereignty
Is Held to Be Essential.
Disarmament and the limitation
of warfare without such a merging
of sovereignty look, at the first
glance, easier and more modest
proposals, but they suffer from the
fatal defect of absolute imprac
ticability. They are things that can
not be made working realities. A
world that could effectually disarm
would be a world already at one,
and disarmament would be of no
importance whatever. Given stable
international relations, the world
would put aside its armaments as
naturally as a man takes off his
coat in winter on entering a warm
house.
And as a previous article has
pointed out, wars. prepemtioum foi
war, and the threat of war e nly
the more striking aspect of human
disunion at the present time. The
smashing up of the world's currency
system and the progressive paralysis
of industry that follows on that is a
much more immediate disaster. Thai
is rushing upon us. This war tall
between Japan and American may
end as abruptly as the snarling of
two dogs overtaken by a flood. There
may not be another great war after
all, because both in Japan and Amer
ica social disruption may come first.
Upon financial and economic ques
tions the powers of the earth must
get together very quickly now o
perish; the signs get more impera
tive every day; and if they get to
gether upon these common issues
then they will-have little reason o1
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excuse for not taking up the merely in effect nationalize among others,
international issues at the same time. the iron and steel and chemical in
Exaggerate se dustries, but as a practical man I
For Patriotic zsesss. have to confess that the oganiza
tini uiu ftion of no existing state is yet at
There is a curious exaggeration ofthe level of efficiency necessary if
respect for patriotism and patriotic the transfer is to be a hopeful one,
excesses in all these projects for die- and so far as the newspaper re
armament and the mitigation of war- striction goe, it would surely pass
fare. We have to "consI;r patriotic the wit o n to devise rules that
susceptibilities;" that is .he stereo- would prevent a great banking
typed formula of objection to the combination from controlling arms
plain necessity of overriding the ment firms on the one hand while
present barbaric sovereigty of sop- it
arate states by a world rule and a ohr
world law protecting the common in
terests of the common people of the O f Anu
In practice these "patriotic suscep- Yet the fact remains that this
tibilitles" will often be found to re- great complex of interests, round
solve themselves into othing me and about the armaments interest
formidable than the conceit and self
importantan oa snme foreign office is the most real of all the ppo -
official. In general they are little tions to a world federation. It
more than a snarling suspiciousness supplies substance, direction and
of foreign people. immediate rewards to the thy
Motpeople are patriotically ex- emotions of patriotism; it mle by
citable, it is in our human nature, dividing us and it realizes that it
but that no more excuses this exces- existence in its present form is
sive deference to patriotism than it conditional upon the continuance
would excuse a complete tolerance of of our suspicions and divisions. It
ioozing and of filthy vices and does not positively want or seek
irunken and lustful outrages be- war, but it wants a continuing ex
Oause we are all more or less sue- pectation of and preparation for
weptible to thirst and desire. war.
And while there is all this defer- On the other hand its ruling in
ence for the most ramshackle and teiligences must be coming to un
impromptu of nationalisms there 1s derstand that in the end it cannot
a comiplet disregard of the influence escape sharing in the economic and
and of the respct dueto one of the social smash down to which we
oreatest and most concentrated in- are all now sliding so rapidly. It
teresta of our modern world the uc- is too high a type of organization
ance, the science, tile experts, the to be altogether blind and obdu
labor, often very specialized and rate. It will not of course, be
highly skilled, of the armament and represented officially at Washing
munitions and associated trader and ton for what it is, but in the form
industriesn of pseudo-patriotic naval, military,
Would Turn Amamet and financial experts it will be
Workers Out of Jo a. better represented than any other
So far as I can ascertain, the side of human life. One of the
ampomtu of nhatInaymathere i most interesting things to do at
advocats of rpt de to one e o the conference will be to watch its
disraet d oostocraptei arctivities.
mass of interests more or less corf- How much can we common men
pletely to put its tremendous ar- ask for and hope for from this
higy oskaoie, h aren dk reratsenter efal etWsinconi
yardis, and sociarted otrade aton or muh-eve I ibt wer thefora
ntorbiteras Iswd-rahn.e ofe Bsuotiti resnale mltary,
ofefnana reatinshipto ra and fiaal efleorots cwiib
anWor poutl its lor t tri e ttr presentners Wehan a note
enginer andI alr acrndunr the extif umnclif.on of thge
of nemloyentIno wichour.hmt l nteingetings and doscat
civiliatioes fwareay ining inedh ctivterenc wiut e o wantt
dis thent popotsee to rapi actridvitrsonfres.lto
thasistneet e oirleat corn- cetv upssnw
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desetsr and w erth i srte
world pae lies net in f
ad desroying the - t I.
bres its i turning them te
world service
but te de suc a thpg regqebs
sased Anan ia esenemis
effort; i cannot kbotr
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mast be l business for worI
terets, unencumbered by a
frontiers, or it is lmpeinuible.
All these cosderatleae you se
eeaverge on the Conclusion that
there is o solution of the problem
of war, no possibiity of a world
recovery, no pohibity of arrest
in the rapid sintegrating of our
eivilisation, exept a Paz Madi,
a federated world control, e -
ciently authoritative to keep an
single nation In order and a=
ciently coherent to express a world
idea.
Co-eperate Is .sstial.
Organised Inernaional
We need an effective world "As
sociation of Nations," to use Presi
dent Harding's phrase, or we shall
perish. And even in this fantastic
dream of Mere Disarmament, of a
world of little independent states,
all sovereign, all competing against
each other and all carrying on a
mean financial and commercial war
fare against each other to the com
mon impoverishment, all standing
in the way of any large modern
spirited handling of modern needs,
yet all remaining magically dis
armed and never making actual
war on each other-even if this
dream were possible, it is still t-t
tery detsae-more detestable
even than our present dangers and
miseries.
For if there are any things in
life worse than pain, fear, and
destruction, they are boredom, pet
tiness, and Inanity, and such would
be the quality of such a world.
However much the diplomatists
at Washington may seek to ignore
the fact, may fence their discus
sion within narrowly phrased agen
da, and rule this, that, and the
other vital aspect outside the scope
of the conference, the fact remains
that there is no way out, no way
of escape for mankind from the
monstrous miseries and far more
monstrous dangers of the present
time except an organized interna
tional co-operation, based upon a
frank and bold resolve to turn
men's minds from ancient jeal
ousies and animosities, to the com
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