The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Only by so doing can we ensure the attainment of a new order in the Pacific, that of lasting peace in this region,

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.