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... injury , killing , and compulsion which human ingenuity can devise or science produce . Our main argument for a League of Nations rests on that . But there are people who do not accept as a 16 . THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
... injury , killing , and compulsion which human ingenuity can devise or science produce . Our main argument for a League of Nations rests on that . But there are people who do not accept as a 16 . THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Page 17
... accept as a fact the illimitable nature of war . They fall back upon the theory that the horrors of the Great War ... accepted code of rules . This is , we hold , a delusion . Our case is that the nations can agree far more easily to ...
... accept as a fact the illimitable nature of war . They fall back upon the theory that the horrors of the Great War ... accepted code of rules . This is , we hold , a delusion . Our case is that the nations can agree far more easily to ...
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... accepted defeat without having thrown anything like their full strength into the struggle , the objection is met by a twofold answer . Firstly , the logic of war , the law - as we have termed it - of the utmost effort , had not yet been ...
... accepted defeat without having thrown anything like their full strength into the struggle , the objection is met by a twofold answer . Firstly , the logic of war , the law - as we have termed it - of the utmost effort , had not yet been ...
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... accepted as historical ; but it only shows us the breakdown of such an experiment . Thus it runs : - The Argives collected troops to resist the seizure of Thyrea , but be- fore any battle was fought , the two parties came to terms and ...
... accepted as historical ; but it only shows us the breakdown of such an experiment . Thus it runs : - The Argives collected troops to resist the seizure of Thyrea , but be- fore any battle was fought , the two parties came to terms and ...
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... accept a defeat which it knows , or hopes , that it can repair . Effort , no doubt , will generally be proportioned to the real or fancied importance of the point at issue . If England had been unable to live without her American ...
... accept a defeat which it knows , or hopes , that it can repair . Effort , no doubt , will generally be proportioned to the real or fancied importance of the point at issue . If England had been unable to live without her American ...
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