ABSTRACT
The essence of the collective peace system is that each nation should co-operate in peaceful development of the fullest life of the community of nations, that each should respect an agreed code of peace-keeping, and that each should accept a fair share of the joint responsibility for preventing and stopping breaches of that code of peace. The advantages to be derived from the collective peace system are as yet but dimly realized; the responsibilities of guarding it against violence are as yet very hesitantly accepted; and, while the nations are armed to the teeth, the risks of collective restraint of a peace-breaker may be daunting. The greatest of national units, America, as yet accepts only a part of the full collective peace system endorsed by Members of the League. The collective peace system founded on the Covenant and the Kellogg Pact will have formidable forces against it.
