Philip Noel-Baker (1889–1982)

from the Preface to the First Edition: "This book ... is a straightforward attempt to estimate the importance of disarmament in national and international policy at the present day, and to face the difficulties, both technical and political, which will certainly arise in the practical discussions of the subject now shortly to begin in the Preparatory Disarmament Committee of the League of Nations. ... the purpose ... was to explore, as thoroughly as might be in a book intended not so much for the expert as for the general reader, the obscure problems involved in the preparation of an international agreement for the mutual and general reduction and limitation of national armaments; to show the complexity of these problems to those who think them simple; and to suggest solutions to those who think them insoluble."… (más)