INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament

No law except the Sword, unsheathed and uncontrolled!

—Rudyard Kipling.

Great primeval monsters, each his own judge of right and wrong, and all ready to fight separately or in combination the moment there was anything to be gained by fighting—such were the Great Powers not long ago. That this shall be so no longer men have now met in Geneva. Last week they worked.

Fundamental are these facts:

1) So-called "International Law," contrary to popular belief, does not necessarily bind a sovereign state.

2) The League of...

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