Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . ace Conference of1899 did not meet to bring a war to a close; it came togetherin a time of European peace to consider how the existing peacemight be maintained and military expenditures reduced. The Hague Conference did nothing to limit armaments. Itis significant in view of later events that Germany stronglyand successfully opposed any such action. The Conference did,however, in spite of German opposition, establish a permanentCourt of Arbitration to whic
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . ace Conference of1899 did not meet to bring a war to a close; it came togetherin a time of European peace to consider how the existing peacemight be maintained and military expenditures reduced. The Hague Conference did nothing to limit armaments. Itis significant in view of later events that Germany stronglyand successfully opposed any such action. The Conference did,however, in spite of German opposition, establish a permanentCourt of Arbitration to which difficulties arising between nations 1 For the. Tsars rescript calling the conference, see Readings in ModemEuropean History^ Vol. II, pp. 463^. Origin of the War of I<pi4 731 involving neither honor nor vital intepests might be sub-mitted. But there was no way of compelling a nation to submitits grievances, and just those very sources of war that makemost trouble were excluded from consideration. At the secondconference, held in 1907, the question of the limitation of arma-ments was again proposed and championed by England, but.
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