The Structure of Lasting Peace: An Inquiry Into the Motives of War and Peace

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Marshall Jones Company, 1918 - 187 páginas

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Página 126 - ... political development and national policy, and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing ; and more than a welcome assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
Página 144 - To form a permanent union, accommodated to the opinion and wishes of the delegates of so many states, differing in habits, produce, commerce and internal police, was found to be a work, which nothing but time and reflection conspiring with a disposition to conciliate, could mature and accomplish. Hardly is it to be expected, that any plan, in the variety of provisions essential to our union, should exactly correspond with the maxims and political views of every particular state.
Página 145 - THE united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
Página 126 - Their conception of what is right, of what it is humane and honorable for them to accept, has been stated with a frankness, a largeness of view, a generosity of spirit and a universal human sympathy which must challenge the admiration of every friend of mankind ; and they have refused to compound their ideals or desert others that they themselves may be safe.
Página 31 - Others he enters [30] without choice and cannot leave without taking leave of his life. The citizen of America may become one of England, the Baptist a Methodist, the lawyer a banker, the Elk a Mason, the Republican a Socialist, the capitalist a proletarian. But the son, father, uncle, cousin cannot cease to be these ; he cannot reject the relationships these words express, nor alter them. If they obtain once, they obtain forever. So an Irishman is always an Irishman, a Jew always a Jew. Irishman...
Página 146 - The mutual antipathies and clashing interests of the Americans, their differences of governments, habitudes, and manners, indicate that they will have no centre of union and no common interest. They never can be united into one compact empire under any species of government whatever; a disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, they will be divided and sub-divided into little commonwealths or principalities, according to natural boundaries, by great bays of the...
Página 32 - All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights ; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Página 160 - ... trust to an international treaty. The other sees that the cure for lawlessness is not less law, but more law, that the cure for broken treaties is more and better treaties, and that the cure for bad faith is more faith. Why the constitution of the League of Nations ought to be the first proposition in the peace conference should be obvious enough. Once certain principles of public law are established, the adjudication of all specific racial, territorial, economic, and military issues will follow...
Página 174 - ... to the end of attaining the acme of free trade in habits and theories of life, in letters, and in methods. Regarding the second principle of internationalized education — that it must be unprejudiced: This requires the systematic internationalization of certain subject-matters. In the end, of course, all subject-matters get internationalized. The process is, however, too slow and too dangerous with respect to some of these, history being the most flagrant. Compare any collection of history...
Página 161 - ... more faith. Why the constitution of the League of Nations ought to be the first proposition in the peace conference should be obvious enough. Once certain principles of public law are established, the adjudication of all specific racial, territorial, economic, and military issues will follow easily and smoothly enough from them. The converse is not true. Let these issues be taken up severally and separately, without regard to an international rule, and the peace conference will become a bargain...

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