English Translation

(f) The international guarantee of future peace. But the future European Golitian and Swcial Statute, even if it were still so perfect, would not save peace in the long run, unless there was an active willingness to defend it. Political and social institutions only last so long as the mensohs are determined to sacrifice themselves for them. The peace of Versailles meant a great improvement in the European conditions against the situation before the year I9l4. But not even states that were most interested in its preservation would be "the gendarme of Europe", as they said in France. Unfortunately, no social order is possible without gendarmes. All the States, after the experience of the last time, have the mat to be solidararisoh the genera of the order which will form after this war. This common will must be cast into a common security organisation - perhaps everyone has understood today that the condition of peace on the European continent is the principle of collective sovereignty. When we adopted this principle in the Geneva Protocol in the year 1924, it was considered too bold. England rejected it at that time. Today, it is a seismic wisdom. Of course, the