20xxfortheleagueofnations(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 he practically universal opinion of plain men everywhere that they wanted the door left open to a variety of representation, instead of being confined to a single official body with which they could or might not find themselves in sympathy.
and you will notice that this body has unlimited rights of discussion. i mean of discussion of anything that falls within the field of international relationsand that it is especially agreed that war or international misunderstandings or anything that may lead to friction or trouble is everybodyamp。39。s business, because it may affect the peace of the world.
and in order to safeguard the popular power so far as we could of this representative body, it is provided, you will notice, that when a subject is submitted it is not to arbitration but to discussion by the executive council。 it can, upon the initiative of either of the parties to the dispute, be drawn out of the executive council on the larger form of the general body of delegates, because through this instrument we are depending primarily and chiefly upon one great force, and this is the moral force of the public opinion of the worldthe pleasing and clarifying and pelling influences of publicityso that intrigues can no longer have their coverts。 so that designs that are sinister can at anytime be drawn into the open, so that those things that are destroyed by the light may be promptly destroyed by the overwhelming light of the universal expression of the condemnation of the world.
armed force is in the background in this program。 but it is in the background, and, if the moral force of the world will not suffice, the physical force of the world shall. but that is the last resort, because this is intended as a constitution of peace, not as a league of war.
the simplicity of the document seems to me to be one of its chief virtues, because, speaking for myself, i was unable to see the variety of circumstances with which this league would have to deal. i was unable, therefore, to plan all the machinery that might be necessary to meet the differing
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