We need to define what an aggressor nation is. We need to have a
tribunal where the facts in any case may be discussed, and the decision
made before the world, as to whether a nation is an aggressor or not.
Then the steps decided upon could be taken in conjunction with other
nations.
First of all, trade should be withdrawn from that nation and they
should be barred as traders in the countries disagreeing with them.
It would not seem probable that more than this economic weapon would
have to be used but, if necessary in the end, the police force could be
called upon.
In the case of a clearly defined issue where the majority of nations
agreed, the police force would simply try to prevent bloodshed and
aggression, and it would be in a very different position from an army
which was attempting to attack a country and subjugate it. Even the use
of a police force, which so many think of as tantamount to war, would
really be very different and there would be no idea of marching into a
country or making the people suffer or taking anything from them. It
would simply be a group of armed men preventing either of the parties
to a quarrel from entering into a real war.
Of course, I can imagine cases in which the police force might find
itself in an unenviable position, with two countries engaged in a
heated quarrel trying to do away with the police so they could get at
each other!
All we can hope is that this situation will not arise and that the
non-aggressor party to the quarrel, at least, may be willing to sit
peacefully by and see the police force repulse the enemy without
wishing to turn into aggressors themselves.
With all our agitation about peace, we lose sight of the fact that with
the proper machinery it is easier to keep out of situations which lead
to war than it is to bring about peace once war is actually going on.
I doubt very much whether peace is coming to us either through plans,
even my own as I have outlined it, or through any of the theories or
hopes we now hold. What I have outlined is not real peace, just a
method of trying to deal with our difficulties a little better than
we have in the past, in the world as it is today. We may, of course,
be wiped off the face of the earth before we do even this. Our real
ultimate objective must be a change in human nature for I have, as
I said, yet to see a peace plan which is really practical and which
has been thought through in every detail. Therefore, I am inclined to
believe that there is no perfect and complete program for bringing
about peace in the world at the present moment.
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