Women and World FederationR.M. McBride & Company, 1919 - 250 pages |
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... rule of kings it was logical that foreign ministers should wield this life - and - death power . The King was not only a celestially delegated sovereign but also he was the nominal possessor of the State . The minister was his agent ...
... rule of kings it was logical that foreign ministers should wield this life - and - death power . The King was not only a celestially delegated sovereign but also he was the nominal possessor of the State . The minister was his agent ...
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... rules and common measurements of standards . Individuals who take life , for instance , are called murderers , not heroes , and are incarcerated and punished by law . Indeed , in all civilized countries , the law forbids the individual ...
... rules and common measurements of standards . Individuals who take life , for instance , are called murderers , not heroes , and are incarcerated and punished by law . Indeed , in all civilized countries , the law forbids the individual ...
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... rules frequently have to be amended . An amusing occasion necessitating change is related by Woolf in his International . Government . The Bible Societies of England and America publish more Bibles than any other book , dispatching them ...
... rules frequently have to be amended . An amusing occasion necessitating change is related by Woolf in his International . Government . The Bible Societies of England and America publish more Bibles than any other book , dispatching them ...
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... rule so widely separated from its neighbors that there was little thought of reciprocity . The maintenance of this theory became a fundamental of diplomacy and an axiom of political science . If a state attempted to overturn it and make ...
... rule so widely separated from its neighbors that there was little thought of reciprocity . The maintenance of this theory became a fundamental of diplomacy and an axiom of political science . If a state attempted to overturn it and make ...
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... rule . But diplomats had learned nothing from the French Revolution . They could not grasp the fact that sovereignty was passing gradually away from monarchs and into the hands of the people , and that kings themselves were doomed . And ...
... rule . But diplomats had learned nothing from the French Revolution . They could not grasp the fact that sovereignty was passing gradually away from monarchs and into the hands of the people , and that kings themselves were doomed . And ...
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Page 211 - 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 205 - ... 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, the High Contracting Parties...
Page 205 - 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 84 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe; Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law; Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Page 134 - 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, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations...
Page 221 - The degree of authority, control, or administration to be exercised by the Mandatory shall, if not previously agreed upon by the Members of the League, be explicitly defined in each case by the Council.
Page 207 - 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 206 - The original Members of the League of Nations shall be those of the Signatories which are named in the Annex to this Covenant, and also such of those other States named in the Annex as shall accede without reservation to this Covenant.
Page 212 - The Members of the League agree that, if there should arise between them any dispute likely to lead to a rupture they will submit the matter either to arbitration or judicial settlement or to inquiry by the Council and they agree in no case to resort to war until three months after the award by the arbitrators or the judicial decision or the report by the Council.
Page 219 - 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, there should be...