The Responsibilities of the League (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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To guide mighty states by counsel, to conduct them from institutions Of error to a worthier discipline, to extend a provident care to furthest shores, to watch, to foresee, to Shrink from no toil, to flee all the empty shows Of Opulence and power-these indeed are things so arduous that, compared with them, war is but as the play of children. - Mz'lton.

The purpose of this essay is to examine the responsibilities assumed by Britain and by the British Commonwealth Of Nations during the past five years, and to suggest the new spirit in which these responsibilities must be faced. They are not responsibilities to which the British people are accustomed, either by their history or by their institutions. Indeed, in many ways they may be said to run counter to British character and British traditional policy. And yet it may be said with equal truth that we have not merely incurred these responsi bilities, but have deliberately assumed them. The war and the peace treaties are just now bringing their usual aftermath Of disclosures, but it needs no expert knowledge gathered behind the scenes, no revelations Of the diplomatic steps by which the governments have arrived at the terms Of the peace treaties.

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