 It must be remembered that undisguised atrocities on a stupendous scale — such, for instance, as the massacre in cold blood of whole regiments of helpless prisoners — would be too strong for the stomach of even the most brutalized people, and would...  The Idea of a League of Nations - Page 25by Herbert George Wells, Edward Grey Grey of Fallodon (Viscount), Lionel Curtis, William Archer, Henry Wickham Steed, Alfred Zimmern, John Alfred Spender, James Bryce Bryce (Viscount), Gilbert Murray - 1919 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1919 - 1066 pages
...people, and would tend to bring war into discredit with all but its monomaniac votaries. If we look closely enough, we shall find that all Geneva Conventions...effects, make ultimately for the persistence of war as an instittition. They are sops to humanity, devices for rendering war barely tolerable to civilized mankind,... | |
 | California - 1919 - 1126 pages
...concessions to a foolish popular psychology .... All Geneva Conventions and such palliative ordinances make ultimately for the persistence of war as an institution. They are sops to humanity, devices for making war barely tolerable to civilized mankind and so staving off the inevitable rebellion against... | |
 | margaret slattery - 1914 - 138 pages
...with human nature that, having appealed to force, they should agree to exercise it only within limits, and accept impoverishment, humiliation, servitude,...the inevitable rebellion against its abominations. V ^Criticisms of the project of a League of Nations have consisted hitherto very largely of the statement... | |
 | American essays - 1919 - 950 pages
...people, and would tend to bring war into discredit with all but its monomaniac votaries. If we look closely enough, we shall find that all Geneva Conventions...war barely tolerable to civilized mankind, and so stavingoff the inevitable rebellion against its abominations. n Criticisms of the project of a League... | |
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