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【正文】 nd help, and will be among the wards of the bined governments of the world. this is, i take leave to say, a very great step in advance in the mere conception of that.
then, as you will notice, there is an imperative article concerning the publicity of all international agreements. henceforth no member of the league can call any agreement valid which it has not registered with the secretary general, in whose office, of course, it will be subject to the examination of any body representing a member of the league. and the duty is laid upon the secretary general to earliest possible time.
i suppose most persons who have not been conversant with the business of foreign affairs do not realize how many hundreds of these agreements are made in a single year, and how difficult it might be to publish the more unimportant of them immediately. how uninteresting it would be to most of the world to publish them immediately, but even they must be published just as soon as it is possible for the secretary general to publish them.
there has been no greater advance than this, gentlemen. if you look back upon the history of the world you will see how helpless peoples have too often been a prey to powers that had no conscience in the matter. it has been one of the many distressing revelations of recent years that the great power which has just been, happily, defeated put intolerable burdens and injustices upon the helpless people of some of the colonies which it annexed to itself。 that its interest was rather their extermination than their development。 that the desire was to possess their land for european purposes, and not to enjoy their confidence in order that mankind might be lifted in these places to the next higher level.
now, the world, expressing its conscience in law, says there is an end of that, that our consciences shall be settled to this thing. states will be picked out which have already shown that they can exercise a conscience in this matter, and under their tutelage the helpless peoples of the world will e into a new light and into a new hope.
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