Quote by Arthur Henderson
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
Summary
The quote suggests that in order to achieve equality in disarmament, the first step should involve offering the opportunity to abolish the weapons that were prohibited to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. In other words, it proposes that ending the restrictions on particular weapons for certain countries would be a fair and necessary step towards creating a more balanced and just disarmament process.