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actual practical, physical security, which would make it impossible for her again to find herself 
 
involved in war with Germany. I asked him what his views might be with regard to the machinery 
 
that might be created--machinery of an international character--that could afford such actual 
 
physical security.
 
          M. Daladier said that the real problem was that the military forces of the opposing Powers 
 
were in some ways equivalent. Clearly disarmament was the only solution; and yet how could any 
 
actual step towards disarmament be undertaken by France or by England unless they were 
 
confident that Germany and Italy were in reality disarming at the same time?  How could France 
 
have any confidence in any disarmament which Germany might allege she was undertaking, in 
 
view of the experience France had had during the post-War years, and especially during the
 
latter portion of that period? (He referred to the period before Germany publicly announced that 
 
she was rearming.)  The French military mission in Germany under General Nollet had been 
 
perfectly well aware that every time stocks of German armaments were destroyed, equivalent or 
 
greater stocks were being constructed secretly in other parts of Germany. He said it would seem 
 
as if only the neutral Powers could insure disarmament in Europe by means of the assumption by 
 
them of the responsibility for seeing that disarmament was actually undertaken, and this in the last 
 
analysis meant the possibility of the use of force by the neutral Powers. None of the European 
 
neutral Powers had any military strength whatever, and there was clearly only one neutral Power 
 
which had the military strength to