![]() ![]() Historians today do not explain the outbreak of war in 1914 as simply the result of international tensions caused by the arms race. The League of Nations tried to achieve this goal from 1926 to 1935, but it ultimately failed. ![]() After the First World War and its nearly 40 million casualties, beliefs among anti-war activists strengthened that the armaments race had caused the worst war in history, and that arms reductions remained the best guarantor of peace. In early 1914, British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill (1874–1965) observed that “the world is arming as it has never armed before.” Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey (1862–1933) agreed, lamenting that “excessive expenditure on armaments, carried to an extensive degree, must lead to a catastrophe,” and adding that he saw “very little to be done” to prevent the impending cataclysm. ![]()
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