Excerpt from An International Police: To Guarantee the World's Peace From all sides comes the cry: Let us be active. What is the good of having a peace society unless it does some thing Exactly. What is the good of having a fire bri gade unless it puts out the fires? But what would you think of a fire brigade that would limit its activity to holding monthly meetings to listen to reports on the damage done by fire and to ask in astonishment why that damage was allowed to continue? Would you call such a fire brigade active? An active fire brigade is one which gets hold of a fire-engine and throws water on the fire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.