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【正文】 f the greatest variety of circumstances and interests. so that i think we are justified in saying that the significance of the result, therefore, has the deepest of all meanings, the union of wills in a mon purpose, a union of wills which cannot be resisted and which, i dare say, no nation will run the risk of attempting to resist.
now, as to the character of the document. while it has consumed some time to read this document, i think you will see at once that it is very simple, and in nothing so simple as in the structure which it suggests for a league of nations, a body of delegates, an executive council, and a permanent secretariat.
when it came to the question of determining the character of the representation in the body of delegates, we were all aware of a feeling which is current throughout the world.
inasmuch as i am stating it in the presence of the official representatives of the various governments here present, including myself, i may say that there is a universal feeling that the world cannot rest satisfied with merely official guidance. there has reached us through many channels the feeling that if the deliberating body of the league of nations was merely to be a body of officials representing the various governments, the peoples of the world would not be sure that some of the mistakes which preoccupied officials had admittedly made might not be repeated.
it was impossible to conceive a method or an assembly so large and various as to be really representative of the great body of the peoples of the world, because, as i roughly reckon it, we represent as we sit around this table more than billion people.
you cannot have a representative assembly of billion people, but if you leave it to each government to have, if it pleases, one or two or three representatives, though only with a single vote, it may vary its representation from time to time, not only, but it may (originate) the choice of its several representatives [wireless here unintelligible.
therefore we thought that this was a proper and a very prudent concession to t
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