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... 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 possibility ...
... 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 possibility ...
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A Personal Narrative Robert Lansing. state of mind that in a measure determined my conduct which without this recital ... measured by the situation which existed when they were written and not alone in the light of the complete review of ...
A Personal Narrative Robert Lansing. state of mind that in a measure determined my conduct which without this recital ... measured by the situation which existed when they were written and not alone in the light of the complete review of ...
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... measure of success to maintain the position of an unbiased arbiter in the discussions leading up to the armistice of November 11 , and Germany un- doubtedly looked to him as the one hope of checking the spirit of revenge which animated ...
... measure of success to maintain the position of an unbiased arbiter in the discussions leading up to the armistice of November 11 , and Germany un- doubtedly looked to him as the one hope of checking the spirit of revenge which animated ...
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... measure his superior place of influence even though he was in Paris . Four days after the Commission landed at Brest I had a long conference with Colonel House on matters pertaining to the approaching negotiations , during which he ...
... measure his superior place of influence even though he was in Paris . Four days after the Commission landed at Brest I had a long conference with Colonel House on matters pertaining to the approaching negotiations , during which he ...
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... measure the immediate causes of war , to provide means for the peace- able settlement of disputes between nations , and to draw the governments into closer friendship appealed to the general desire of the peoples of America and Europe ...
... measure the immediate causes of war , to provide means for the peace- able settlement of disputes between nations , and to draw the governments into closer friendship appealed to the general desire of the peoples of America and Europe ...
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Page 286 - Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the Members of the League or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to the whole League, and the League shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations.
Page 94 - 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 310 - ... 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; (&) undertake to secure just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control...
Page 302 - It is also declared to be the friendly right of each Member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly or of the Council any circumstance whatever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.
Page 298 - 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 305 - 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...
Page 59 - ... 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 304 - If the Council fails to reach a report which is unanimously agreed to by the members thereof, other than the representatives of one or more of the parties to the dispute, the members of the League reserve to themselves the right to take such action as they shall consider necessary for the maintenance of right and justice.
Page 279 - In order to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another, Agree to this covenant...
Page 308 - 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...