Hjalmar Branting Quotes

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• And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen…
• At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange…
• I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of…
• It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be
• The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time…
• Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature
• As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even…
• But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of…
• All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of…
• Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions…
• No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations
• We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting,…
• A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity…
• Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of…
• As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even…
• The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the…
• There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more…
• Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation…
• The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened…
• We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow…

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