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... LEAGUE OF NATIONS The Cornerstone of Peace . Senate Usurpation . As it was in the Beginning Lodge Versus Lodge Only its Debts and its Dead Armistice Day . Democracy in Foreign Affairs Decorated but Deserted The Limitation of Armament ...
... LEAGUE OF NATIONS The Cornerstone of Peace . Senate Usurpation . As it was in the Beginning Lodge Versus Lodge Only its Debts and its Dead Armistice Day . Democracy in Foreign Affairs Decorated but Deserted The Limitation of Armament ...
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... League of Nations . The im- pression left by Frank Cobb is to be found most firmly marked among people who disagreed with him while re- specting and loving him . No man better enjoyed being loved ; and no man would have less pardoned a ...
... League of Nations . The im- pression left by Frank Cobb is to be found most firmly marked among people who disagreed with him while re- specting and loving him . No man better enjoyed being loved ; and no man would have less pardoned a ...
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... League lobby ; it was driven through Con- gress by the lobby , and it is the most shamelessly men- dacious piece of legislation that any Congress ever enacted . In vetoing this lie , President Wilson has performed not only a highly ...
... League lobby ; it was driven through Con- gress by the lobby , and it is the most shamelessly men- dacious piece of legislation that any Congress ever enacted . In vetoing this lie , President Wilson has performed not only a highly ...
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... League of Nations was to be a con- tinuing court of equity , sitting in judgment on the peace itself , revising its ... League , and the League would rectify the inevitable mistakes of the treaty . It is a curious commentary on human ...
... League of Nations was to be a con- tinuing court of equity , sitting in judgment on the peace itself , revising its ... League , and the League would rectify the inevitable mistakes of the treaty . It is a curious commentary on human ...
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... are against the participation by the United States in a League to Enforce Peace on the ground that it conflicts with Washington's Farewell Ad- dress are spiritual brothers of the men who ardently de- 264 COBB OF " THE WORLD "
... are against the participation by the United States in a League to Enforce Peace on the ground that it conflicts with Washington's Farewell Ad- dress are spiritual brothers of the men who ardently de- 264 COBB OF " THE WORLD "
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Page 223 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.
Page 225 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world...
Page 82 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter !— all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 261 - The present war must first be ended; but we owe it to candor and to a just regard for the opinion of mankind to say that, so far as our participation in guarantees of future peace is concerned, it makes a great deal of difference in what way and upon what terms it is ended.
Page 27 - Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast,- or any part of Central America...
Page 28 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain, having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Page 223 - 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 351 - For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do ? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed...
Page 29 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality...
Page 269 - The President said a declaration of war would mean that Germany would be beaten and so badly beaten that there would be a dictated peace, a victorious peace. "It means," he said, "an attempt to reconstruct a peace-time civilization with war standards, and at the end of the war there will be no bystanders with sufficient power to influence the terms. There won't be any peace standards left to work with. There will be only war standards.