Excerpt from Selected Articles on Disarmament In some features it departs from the usual plan of this series and is not arranged as a debate. In the first place it seemed impossible to arrange a systematic debate if all the diverse points of view among advocates of disarmament were to be represented. In the second place there is comparatively little active opposition. There is, on the other hand, a counter prop aganda, for a strong army, a big navy, and for aerial and chemical armament. In place of the usual division into Affirm ative and Negative, the book, following the General Discussion, has accordingly been divided into two parts, with the headings: For Disarmament; and For Continued Armaments. The bulk of material is much greater on the side for Disarmament. The Big Army and Navy advocates are not doing so much talking now. They talked in the Preparedness campaign before 1916 when the navy building program was adopted and are now harvesting the fruits in the naval appropriation bill. 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.