ABSTRACT
Covenants to refrain from war and other moral and intellectual influences will do much to predispose peoples and governments in favour of the pacific settlement of all disputes and to obviate the development of dangerous hostilities. It is obviously desirable that all the civilized peoples should be comprised in the league for peace. The problems connected with disarmament and security are at once the most difficult and the most important which have to be solved before the organization of the international society for peace can be placed upon a satisfactory foundation. In the case of air forces it may well be found better to adopt a scheme of international regulation rather than that of mutual covenants for the contribution by the Powers of agreed quotas to a common force. Armed forces could be limited to those which in their nature were merely the police of the states maintaining them.
