A defensive force of this kind would not have the character or the aims which make a great professional army a menace to peace.
15 .-- Lastly, it is undesirable and would be futile to attempt to set up a "supernational sovereign authority." The scope of any League--its powers and its objects--should be clearly defined, and the independent sovereign States should bind themselves, as contracting parties, to carry out the terms agreed, and all should agree beforehand as to the steps they would take to prevent or to punish any violation of those terms..