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92 IV CONCURRENT STEPS TOWARD P EFUL IT Is generally recognized that disarmament alone cannot create and maintain friendly and peaceful relations among nations. Disarmament is merely one evidence and implementa- tion of a commitment to live at peace, a component part of the whole establishment of a dynamic peace based on continu- ous negotiation, the reasonable settlement of political disputes, utuzl aid among nations. So hztve indeed o ~.pha- sized the interdependence of these factors to the point of insisting that disarmament Cannot be attempted until mutual con
dence and a willingness to settle tlillercnces by reasonable negotiation have been established. We
rmly believe, however, that progress must be made on each of these fronts concur- rently as the American Friends Service Committee has main- tained in its two previous pamphlets bearing on current inter- national relations!. In a highly Complicated and rapidly chang- ing world the peace we all desire requires a progression of steps on various fronts at the same time. rt rr.-92-'r1-- 11 vv-in I- methods or the ooviet Union and tne unite-a otates, out there is enough room for accommodation to permit the two systems to continue to evolve peaceably without the surrender of basic values. 3. Both Russia and the United States feat domination or direct military attack by the other, while much of the rest of the world fears political or military domination