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... seemed necessary to me to consider the adoption of a line of action in regard to the negotiations , and particularly so when the indications were that the President purposed to reach a decision which seemed to me unwise or impolitic ...
... seemed necessary to me to consider the adoption of a line of action in regard to the negotiations , and particularly so when the indications were that the President purposed to reach a decision which seemed to me unwise or impolitic ...
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... seemed to be his views , concerning less important matters and to concen- trate on those which seemed vital . I went in fact as far as I could in adopting his views in the hope that my advice would be less unpalatable and would , as a ...
... seemed to be his views , concerning less important matters and to concen- trate on those which seemed vital . I went in fact as far as I could in adopting his views in the hope that my advice would be less unpalatable and would , as a ...
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... seemed in a measure changed after departing from the United States in December , 1918 , I do not think that the change was sufficient to justify the presumption of self - assurance which it would be necessary to adopt if the alternative ...
... seemed in a measure changed after departing from the United States in December , 1918 , I do not think that the change was sufficient to justify the presumption of self - assurance which it would be necessary to adopt if the alternative ...
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... seemed to find satisfaction in departing from the established paths marked out by custom and usage . When , however , the attempt at mediation failed and when six weeks later , on February 1 , 1917 , the German Government renewed ...
... seemed to find satisfaction in departing from the established paths marked out by custom and usage . When , however , the attempt at mediation failed and when six weeks later , on February 1 , 1917 , the German Government renewed ...
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... seemed to have failed to appreciate , or , if he did appreciate , to have ig- nored the fact that the conditions were wholly different in October , 1918 , from what they were in December , 1916 . In December , 1916 , the United States ...
... seemed to have failed to appreciate , or , if he did appreciate , to have ig- nored the fact that the conditions were wholly different in October , 1918 , from what they were in December , 1916 . In December , 1916 , the United States ...
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Page 291 - Article 10. The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
Page 288 - The Council shall meet from time to time as occasion may require, and at least once a year, at the Seat of the League, or at such other place as may be decided upon. The Council may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the League or affecting the peace of the world.
Page 49 - ... an equality of rights; the guarantees exchanged must neither recognize nor imply a difference between big nations and small, between those that are powerful and those that are weak. Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength, of the nations upon whose concert peace will depend.
Page 300 - League : (a) will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend, and for that purpose will establish and maintain the necessary international organisations ; (b) undertake to secure just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control...
Page 298 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world...
Page 301 - The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised voluntary national Red Cross organisations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.
Page 302 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 302 - The program of the world's peace, therefore, is our program ; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this : i.
Page 275 - Should any member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13 or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the League, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations, the prohibition of all intercourse between their nationals and the nationals of the covenant-breaking State, and the prevention of all financial, commercial or personal intercourse between the...
Page 300 - ... to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of all Members of the League. In this connection, the special necessities of the regions devastated during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in mind; (/) will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease.