Movements of the United States Toward World Disarmament

Abstract

The World War in its causes and in its effects has placed upon nations the necessity of analyzing the problems of war itself. The effort to eliminate the evils of war from international dealings has become a movement not wholly based upon emotion, although emotion and sentiment may strengthen the determination to eradicate them. Highly civilized nations still conscious of the tragic experience of the world conflict have more fully realized that war has become a futile instrument in the direction and peaceful continuance of national progress. A change of attitude, radical from its very origin, and bitterly opposed to warfare, has become a historical fact. This attitude may resolve itself into a complete renunciation of war, may become an instrument of national policy, and thus may establish a new basis for international law.