The World Court, Volume 4International Peace Forum, 1918 - International relations |
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... ment , and the destruction and waste of war . However vain that hope may appear in the midst of the most devastating and destruc- tive war in the history of the race , it per- sists - perhaps because we are encouraged by the analogous ...
... ment , and the destruction and waste of war . However vain that hope may appear in the midst of the most devastating and destruc- tive war in the history of the race , it per- sists - perhaps because we are encouraged by the analogous ...
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... ment has followed each appeal to the God of Battles ; the twentieth century demands a reasonable and Demo- cratic solution devoid of the transi- tory adjustment which force pro- vides . THE KEYS TO 19 The Problem of Alsace - Lorraine ...
... ment has followed each appeal to the God of Battles ; the twentieth century demands a reasonable and Demo- cratic solution devoid of the transi- tory adjustment which force pro- vides . THE KEYS TO 19 The Problem of Alsace - Lorraine ...
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... ment was accomplished without bloodshed . " The Petrograd Soviet of the Soldiers ' and Workmens ' Delegates solemnly wel- comes the accomplished change and proclaims the authority of the Military Revolutionary Committee until the ...
... ment was accomplished without bloodshed . " The Petrograd Soviet of the Soldiers ' and Workmens ' Delegates solemnly wel- comes the accomplished change and proclaims the authority of the Military Revolutionary Committee until the ...
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... ment for months had been floundering about helplessly , trying to conciliate here and to mollify there , to gain support here and accommodate oppo- sition there , that it fell . The Bol- sheviki are making no such mistakes -the ...
... ment for months had been floundering about helplessly , trying to conciliate here and to mollify there , to gain support here and accommodate oppo- sition there , that it fell . The Bol- sheviki are making no such mistakes -the ...
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... ment , one of which lay within its borders among the Austro - Hungar- ian Jugoslavs , and the other without , viz . , the Kingdom of Serbia . Thence the pitiless persecutions of the for- mer , and the implacable war , both diplomatic ...
... ment , one of which lay within its borders among the Austro - Hungar- ian Jugoslavs , and the other without , viz . , the Kingdom of Serbia . Thence the pitiless persecutions of the for- mer , and the implacable war , both diplomatic ...
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Page 706 - What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Page 346 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 164 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
Page 241 - Fourth, that all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.
Page 262 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political Independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Page 392 - The establishment of an organization of peace which shall make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every invasion of right and serve to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all must submit and by which every international readjustment that cannot be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanctioned.
Page 58 - What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in ; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealings by the other peoples of the world, as against force and selfish aggression.
Page 60 - Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.
Page 70 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Page 279 - International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right of dominion and where lay the free highways of the world.