“Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.”
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
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Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
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