"The World War broke out with such elemental……" — Hjalmar Branting
"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 was available for reflection and consideration"
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20 Quotes by Hjalmar Branting
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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…
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At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by…
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I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not…
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It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be
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Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature
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As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by…
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But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of…
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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate…
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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited…
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No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly…
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We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come…
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A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly…
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