FREDERICK BARTON MAURICE

The one effective step which has been taken in the past few years towards the reduction of armaments has been the Washington Conference, with which the League of Nations had no concern, and by which a material diminution in the standing navies of the principal naval Powers was obtained and a limit was put to the costly process of competitive shipbuilding.

The one effective step which has been taken in the past few years towards the reduction of armaments has been the Washington Conference, with which the League of Nations had no concern, and by which a material diminution in the standing navies of the principal naval Powers was obtained and a limit was put to the costly process of competitive shipbuilding.