This idea is the gist of the beautiful and sublime Note that His Holiness the Pope addressed to the whole world.

We have not gone to war to make conquests, and we have no aggressive plans.

If the international disarmament that we so heartily are longing for be adopted by our present enemies and becomes a fact, then we are in no need of assurances of territorial safety; in that case, we can give up the idea of expanding the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, provided, of course, that the enemy has entirely evacuated our own territory.
The fourth principle to enforce in order to ensure a free and peaceful development of the world after the hard times we have experienced is the free economic participation by everyone and the unconditional avoidance of an economic war; a war of that nature must be excluded from all future contingencies.

Before we conclude peace we must have the positive assurance that our present enemies have given up that idea.
Those, my honourable friends, are the principles of the new world organisation as it presents itself to me, and they are all based on general disarmament.

Germany, in her answer to the Papal Note, has also positively recognised the idea of a general disarmament.
Our present enemies have likewise, partly at any rate, adopted these principles.