Conference On The Limitation Of Armament Held At Washington November 12 1921 To February 6 1922 PDF Download

Excerpt from Conference on the Limitation of Armament Held at Washington November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922: Report of the Canadian Delegate Including Treaties and Resolutions The first is that the core of the difficulty is to be found in the competition in naval programmes, and that, in order appropriately to limit naval arma ment, competition in its production must be abandoned. Competition will not be remedied by resolves with respect to the method of its continuance. One programme inevitably leads to another, and if competition continues its regu lation is impracticable. There is only one adequate way out and that is to end it now. It is apparent that this can not be accomplished without serious sacrifices. Enormous sums have been expended upon ships under construction and building programmes which are now under way can not be given up Without heavy loss. Yet if the present construction of capital ships goes forward other ships will inevitably be built to rival them and this will lead to still others. Thus the race will continue so long as ability to continue lasts. The effort to escape sacrifices is futile. We must face them or yield our purpose. 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.