It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.
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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.Hjalmar Branting
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
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The League of Nations is not the only organization, albeit the most official, which has inscribed the maintenance of peace through law on its banner.
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At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
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Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.
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I have already mentioned that recent years have brought with them much disillusionment concerning what has so far been achieved by humanity.
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