ABSTRACT
The danger to the world’s peace arising from the fact that the people have neither knowledge nor control in foreign policy is not a product of the imagination on the part of a few Radical pacifists, but the admitted opinion of many statesmen and journals widely divergent in their political views. In no country is there any effective control by the people over foreign policy. The amount of secrecy in foreign affairs should be as much as, and no more than, is required in home affairs. The remarkable collection of opinions serves to show that a great defect in the present constitutional practice with regard to the management of foreign affairs has already been fully recognized by men who can speak with knowledge and authority, as well as by some of the leading journals. And although proposals for a larger measure of control through parliament have not yet received careful examination they are not the sudden invention of political idealists.
