53 (Pax mundi : a concise account of the progress of the movement for peace by means of arbitration, neutralization, international law and disarmament)

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As a result of the extraordinarily rapid
development of world-wide trade and intercourse,
and the consequent community of interests, a
war between two States necessarily occasions
more or less derangement to the rest.

In this increasing solidarity lies the surest
guarantee that neutrality will be respected.

We may already be justified in drawing the
conclusion that the security of neutral States
will continually increase.

Supported upon these foundations of history
and of international law, a discussion was raised
on the neutralization of Sweden, in the First
Chamber by Major C. A. Adelsköld, and by
myself in the Second, in the hope thereby not
only to oppose the King’s bill for the extension
of the war department, but also especially to
open the way for a profitable solution of the
tough, old, threadbare question of Defence.[1]

Motion in the Second Chamber, No. 97.

Since the European States have settled into their present
grouping, the material preponderance of the great powers
over the smaller countries has more and more diminished
the possibility of these defending their external liberty and
independence by military power only.

There are States whose whole male population cannot

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