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Supposing that a complete reduction of armaments--land as well as naval--were possible, would that mean that we had made an end of war? The answer is in the negative. In the first place we have but to look back on the recent war to see that science has so far progressed that even if every battleship were sunk and every piece of ordinance scrapped, no nation would be rendered impotent to attack its neighbor. Gas and airplanes and innumerable other modern instruments of destruction, the manufacture of which can not be subject to control, would remain. Not only...
...answer, then, to the question of the National Council: success at the Washington Conference demands, of course, a reduction of armaments as complete as possible; and as complete as possible agreement and compromise among the nattions on conflicting policies. But such reduction and compromise will amount to nothing unless they are made effective by some forward-looking, obligatory agreement as we have suggested above. If we are to make an end of organized War we must have organized Peace...
College students who have an elementary knowledge of Economics and see these conditions of Japanese farming will not hesitate to give clear answer that Japanese farming has actually reached such a stage that every increase of produce is obtainable only by greater expenses than before...
...virtually one between Yes and No. In the study of the proposals there was of course some labor required, but it was not such as to consume much time, and of course it was hastened by the natural desire of every delegation not to seem to hesitate over an answer to a categorical question...
Some of the questions are so related to others that an answer could not always be made without consideration of the effect that the answer would have on issues not yet settled. For example, whether under discussion or not the effect that a final and detailed agreement on novel armament would have upon the fortification of naval bases has certainly had to be considered by the delegates and their experts. Charged with the duty of preserving the true interests of there respective countries, the delegates could not properly make their decisions without taking time to discuss and to think...