Roads to Peace
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Excerpt from Roads to Peace: A Hand-Book to the Washington Conference The most fundamental business with which the Washington Conference will deal is the sickness of Europe and the route to recovery. The President and Mr. Hughes for reasons to which I will refer later shy away from this matter, but they cannot prevent its consideration and they have not dared to try. Indeed, by including land disarmament in the agenda, they invited the European delegates to propose for discussion both the political dissensions and the economic disabilities of Europe. The European governments know perfectly well that their expenditures on armaments are one of the chief barriers to economic recovery, but these expenditures are only the doctor´s bills which their political maladies force them to pay. They will propose, consequently, to discuss the limitation of land armaments in relation to the national conflicts of which these armies are the instruments, and as this proposal will only repeat the proposal of the United States in relation to the discussion of naval armaments, the American delegation cannot refuse. Yet the inability to refuse will place the American government in an awkward position. For the British and French delegations will, in formulating their attitude towards European armament and its economic effect, focus the discussion upon an embarrassing aspect of the subject. They will insist upon the impossibility of recovery without positive assistance from abroad, which the United States is alone in a position to supply; and they will ask the United States to toe the mark. This the American government is extremely reluctant to do. No matter how courteously it refuses, the refusal will look churlish and selfish. What is the justification for the refusal? And what will be its effect upon the outcome of the Conference? The French argument and policy is ingeniously and persuasively stated by Mr. Sisley Huddleston elsewhere in this pamphlet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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