Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California, Volume 14Commonwealth Club of California., 1919 - California |
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... merchants who have dealings with this country , but we can indemnify them , and doubtless the country would be en- tirely willing to . So far as the forcing of this country into war is concerned , there is nothing obligatory in the ...
... merchants who have dealings with this country , but we can indemnify them , and doubtless the country would be en- tirely willing to . So far as the forcing of this country into war is concerned , there is nothing obligatory in the ...
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... Merchants ' Association for a committee of twelve , comprising its most reactionary members . He likewise requested the labor unions to delegate twelve of their most radical members to meet with the Merchants ' Association committee ...
... Merchants ' Association for a committee of twelve , comprising its most reactionary members . He likewise requested the labor unions to delegate twelve of their most radical members to meet with the Merchants ' Association committee ...
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... merchant marine , ocean , lake , and river traffic and docking facilities included . Coal and other mines , oil and gas wells and pipe lines to be taken over by the government . 4. Revocation of all grants of water rights to private ...
... merchant marine , ocean , lake , and river traffic and docking facilities included . Coal and other mines , oil and gas wells and pipe lines to be taken over by the government . 4. Revocation of all grants of water rights to private ...
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... merchant marine . 14. Education . Free schools , books , and noon - day meals for children . Open- ing of educational opportunities to all . Reconstruction Programme of Washington State Federation of Labor ' The end of the great world ...
... merchant marine . 14. Education . Free schools , books , and noon - day meals for children . Open- ing of educational opportunities to all . Reconstruction Programme of Washington State Federation of Labor ' The end of the great world ...
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... Merchant Marine : Prohibition of Asiatic labor , and strengthen- ing the Seamen's Act . Progressive State Government : No curtailment of the work of California commissions . Enactment of every measure in platform of the California Union ...
... Merchant Marine : Prohibition of Asiatic labor , and strengthen- ing the Seamen's Act . Progressive State Government : No curtailment of the work of California commissions . Enactment of every measure in platform of the California Union ...
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Page 275 - An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose poli-tical and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Page 155 - Assembly, if concurred in by the Representatives of those Members of the League represented on the Council and of a majority of the other Members of the League, exclusive in each case of the Representatives of the parties to the dispute...
Page 273 - A free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
Page 120 - The Members of the League severally agree that this Covenant is accepted as abrogating all obligations or understandings inter se which are inconsistent with the terms thereof, and solemnly undertake that they will not hereafter enter into any engagements inconsistent with the terms thereof.
Page 154 - Any party to the dispute may effect such submission by giving notice of the existence of the dispute to the Secretary General, who will make all necessary arrangements for a full investigation and consideration thereof.
Page 147 - 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 149 - With the approval of the majority of the Assembly, the Council may name additional Members of the League whose Representatives shall always be Members of the Council; the Council with like approval may increase the number of Members of the League to be selected by the Assembly for representation on the Council.
Page 152 - 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 298 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better 'information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 311 - Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.