The International Congress of Women, advocating universal disarmament
and realizing that it can only be secured by international agreement,
urges, as a step to this end, that all countries should, by such an
international agreement, take over the manufacture of arms and munitions
of war and should control all international traffic in the same. It sees
in the private profits accruing from the great armament factories a
powerful hindrance to the abolition of war.