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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS CHAPTER I DEMAND FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS It was a decisive moment in the history of the world when the Imperial Chancellor, von Bethmann-Hollweg, in November, 1916, gave expression, in the Reichstag, to his profound understanding of human nature, in his speech on the "cry for peaceful adjustment and understanding," which after the war will go up from the whole human race: a cry for a settlement which shall prevent any repetition of such a world-war as the present. Since then two further years of war have elapsed; years filled to the brim with suffering, tears and blood. The demand has evoked a million-fold echo from all the nations of the earth. All are demanding guarantees that the world shall never again be turned into a human slaughter-house. In all countries those, above all, who took part in the war, who have seen its horror with their own eyes, and experienced it in their own flesh, in whom the perception of the senselessness of the fact that whole nations furiously fall upon one another, with the flower of their male populations, in order to obtain a decision in cases of international dispute, has grown to be a mighty impulse of will, will combine with those whom the devastation of property and the loss of near relations have hit particularly hard, in order to strive that humanity shall be liberated from the talons of the brutal law of might, and shall agree to employ, in the intercourse of State with State, the means of legal settlement, as in the intercourse of man with man. This movement will come. It is already here. The idea of the League of Nations is occupying men's minds, even those which are hidebound in the narrowest jingoism; it is hovering, in a more or less impressive form, over the thunder of...
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- VerlagTheClassics.us
- Erscheinungsdatum2013
- ISBN 10 1230249478
- ISBN 13 9781230249476
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten74
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