After the gradual reduction of national armies and navies, a minimum force will doubtless be retained as an international police to maintain law and order and justice. A foreshadowing of this was seen when German, French, English, Japanese, Russian, and American forces, under a German general, marched in 1900 to the relief of the legations at Pekin. An international police under world government is an integral part of the programme for an organised world.

The peace movement is primarily a movement for Justice. The scales of justice, not the dove or olive leaf, is the best symbol of the world-wide movement to substitute the system of law for the system of war, and is now so used at national peace congresses.

The peace party has been looked upon as visionary; on the contrary, it is based on precedent and logic, and deals only with reasonable probabilities. The big navy party, ignoring the psychology of internationalism, deals in visionary fashion with hypothetical, theoretical dangers. It is within the limits of possibility that Canada will burn Detroit, that our troops will sack Quebec, that New York will be wiped out by a tidal wave and an earthquake; a million things may be possible, not one of which is in the least probable. Galveston was wiped out by a tidal wave, but shall we therefore spend one hundred million dollars in putting a high wall of reinforced cement around Manhattan? No sane, strong people like ourselves

can be pardoned if we focus attention on mere possibilities of danger, when definite, certain evils daily threaten us within our midst, against which we are grossly unprepared.

CHAPTER III

WHO

INTERDEPENDENCE

HOEVER helps to make nations interdependent helps to make them friends. Whoever makes men friends when they were not friends has put a little cog into the great wheel of world organisation.

What has the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome to do with the peace movement? Much, every way. It concerns all people in fortyseven civilised countries who wear wool, or cotton, or linen, or silk, or leather. It concerns all who eat vegetables, or fruits, or cereals, or eggs, or meat. It affects all who use wood, or paper, or who buy, or sell, or make furniture and buildings, whether the material be in raw or finished forms. It affects farmers and farm employees and workers in textile and paper industries. It affects all those who need salvation from the ravages of insect pests and all those who want the trade and custom of those thus affected. It affects whoever desires to prevent famines, to equalise prices, to prevent "corners" in produce on the exchange, and to promote economic justice. It aids all those who