They want to know whether it would be wise or not to disarm under such conditions.

Of course the answers are obvious.

But, if the guaranty is not sufficient, or accepted as sufficient, protection, what becomes of the central purpose of the League and the chief reason for creating it?
"I believe that the President and Colonel House see this, though they do not admit it, and that to save the League from being cast into the discard they will attempt to make of it a sort of international agency to do certain things which would normally be done by independent international commissions.

Such a course would save the League from being still-born and would so interweave it with the terms of peace that to eliminate it would be to open up some difficult questions.
"Of course the League of Nations as originally planned had one supreme object and that was to prevent future wars.

That was substantially all that it purposed to do.