Diarmement

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The members of the League recognise that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enorcement by common action of international obligations...
Reasons for the Failure of Disarmament

*In the same way that France found it impossible to compromise over the issue of reparations,so it found it impossible to do so over disarmament. Britain saw disarmament as a means of achieving security.France believed that it was necessary to first achieve security before the process of disarmament could begin.
*The French viewed Germany as a potentially powerful nation of 70 million. France,a nation of 4 million,would always be at Germany`s mercy unless it could be sure of an ally,so it aimed at keeping Germany weak and could not move on disarmament until its security had been established.
*The major divergence of opinion on the disarmament question can be summarised as follows:
-the British ...

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