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German
-
Critic
March 23
, 1858 -
March 4
, 1941
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.
Ludwig Quidde
Great
Progress
Pledge
Only
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
Ludwig Quidde
Success
Fight
Law
Understanding
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
Ludwig Quidde
Life
War
Dare
Us
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Ludwig Quidde
Peace
Maintenance
Universal
Even
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.
Ludwig Quidde
War
Will
Security
Logic
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
Ludwig Quidde
Point
Danger
Grave
Insist
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
Ludwig Quidde
Peace
Way
Security
Without
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
Ludwig Quidde
Justice
Law
Speak
Organization
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
Ludwig Quidde
Relationship
Peace
Great
Problems
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
Ludwig Quidde
Present
Point
Starting
Level
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
Ludwig Quidde
Peace
Security
Say
Naive
The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
Ludwig Quidde
Problem
Special
Seriously
Study
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
Ludwig Quidde
Peace
Long
Security
Sound
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
Ludwig Quidde
Peace
Long
Law
Impossible
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
Ludwig Quidde
End
Propaganda
Number
Resolutions
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
Ludwig Quidde
Important
Security
Quite
Limitation
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
Ludwig Quidde
War
Will
Teeth
Just
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
Ludwig Quidde
Place
Nation
Will
Intellectual
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
Ludwig Quidde
Life
Powerful
Logic
More
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.
Ludwig Quidde
History
I Am
Law
Beginning
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
Ludwig Quidde
Peace
Progress
Security
Maintenance
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
Ludwig Quidde
War
Real
Danger
Because
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
Ludwig Quidde
Man
Street
Understand
Always
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