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Such is the case with Austria, with Turkey and with Hungary. Bulgaria, which has a tenacious and compact population composed of small agriculturists, has less difficult conditions of reconstruction. Germany has fulfilled loyally all the conditions of the disarmament.
The armaments of European nations are interdependent, and were such a policy pursued by one nation it would be followed, if not by immediate disarmament in other nations, at any rate, by very considerable reductions. It is very easy to underrate the feeling which for some time past has been growing throughout Europe against the colossal waste of armaments.
That disarmament was agreed to by all nations was a matter of days only from the parallel but unilateral decisions of both Russia and the United States, that disarmament must be accomplished while there was yet time.
But the world cannot afford to stand still on disarmament! We must never give up the search for a basis of agreement. Our allies from time to time develop differing ideas on how to proceed. We must concert these convictions among ourselves. Thereafter, any reasonable proposal that holds promise for disarmament and reduction of tension must be heard, discussed, and, if possible, negotiated.
The President of the Local Government Board and three well-known members on the Government side of the House were to speak. The Demonstration had been organized by the National Peace Association for Disarmament and Social Reform, of which the Prime Minister had lately been elected President. Delegates, both German and English, of the Anglo-German Union had promised to deliver addresses.
Their military preparations are now practically complete, and Johannesburg, if besieged, could not hold out, as they are short of water and coal. On side of Johannesburg leaders desire to be moderate, but men make safety of Jameson and concession of items in manifesto issued conditions precedent to disarmament.
To do this would be to carry on an agitation which would weaken government in the same way that fever wears out the sick. "The Pyrot affair, little as we know how to turn it to advantage, will put forward by ten years the growth of the Social party and the emancipation of the proletariat, by disarmament, the general strike, and revolution."
The grievances which it recapitulated in its earlier portion were as follows: The royal pretension to dispense with and suspend laws without consent of Parliament; the punishment of subjects, as in the "Seven Bishops'" case, for petitioning the crown; the establishment of the illegal court of high commission for ecclesiastical affairs; the levy of taxes without the consent of Parliament; the maintenance of a standing army in time of peace without the same consent; the disarmament of Protestants while papists were both armed and employed contrary to law; the violation of the freedom of election; the prosecution in the king's bench of suits only cognizable in Parliament; the return of partial and corrupt juries; the requisition of excessive bail; the imposition of excessive fines; the infliction of illegal and cruel punishments; the grants of the estates of accused persons before conviction.
Peace had not yet led to disarmament; an army of a hundred and forty thousand men remained standing, ever ready to uphold the rights of France during the long discussions over the regulation of the frontiers.
Gordon's final operations for the suppression of the slave trade in Darfour, carried on while Gessi was engaged in his last struggle with Suleiman, resulted in the release of several thousand slaves, and the dispersal and disarmament of nearly 500 slave-dealers. In one week he rescued as many as 500 slaves, and he began to feel, as he said, that he had at last reached the heart of the evil.
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