ABSTRACT
The opportunities which the collective peace system offers for promoting the fuller use of the world’s plentiful resources are far from having been adequately realized; involving as they do a far-reaching curtailment of the anarchic licence of sovereign States, are far from having won sufficient acceptance by the peoples concerned. There is much too little recognition in this country of the advantages which Great Britain and the whole British Commonwealth can derive from the collective peace system. The attitude of the British and French governments towards Germany during the Disarmament Conference, and the secret preparation of schemes for presentation to her, showed not only insensitiveness to Germany’s psychological condition but also blindness to the fundamental requirements of a truly collective peace system. The chief source of danger in Europe, and the chief problem and test of the collective system, obviously arise from the relations between Germany and her neighbours.
