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This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Make The Best Of It
Our World
World
Best World Must
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Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Courses
Failing
Influence
Course
Fail
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Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Essentials
Justice
Social
Social Justice
Universal
Durable
Essential
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To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Law
Law And Order
Order
World
Peace World Must
Organizing
Establish
World Peace
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The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Economic
Nationalism
Revival
Toward
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Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Country
Justice
Struggle
Freedom Peace Justice
Masses
Thus
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One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Cooperation
Essentials
Nations
Policy
Political
World
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The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Fashion
Needs
World
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The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Depression
Crisis
Economic Crisis
Political
World
Years
Reaction
World Peace
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Peace
Adventure
Disarmament
Enterprise
Impossible
Abandoning
Collective
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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Cult
Dictatorship
Glorification
Gone
Length
Militant
Nationalism
Totalitarian State
Absolute
Totalitarian
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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Aim
Destructive
Forever
Statesmen
Terrible
Moreover
Potentially
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The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Peace
Driving
Intellectual
Mankind
Moral
Powerful
Unity
Forces
Material
Toward
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The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Elements
Essentials
Foundation
Order
Consolidate
Durable
Essential
Essential Elements
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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Forever
Humanity
Scourge
Years
War Humanity World
Endured
Sufferings
World War
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Civilization
Collapse
Tragic
Years
War History World
Clearly
Vast
Led
Revealed
World War
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As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Equality
Abolish
Achieve
Disarmament
Firsts
Forbidden
Rights
Steps
Treaties
Weapons
Central
First Step
Powers
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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Civilization
Mankind
Upheaval
Welfare
War World Will
Destroy
Vast
Forces
Heights
Motion
Raise
World War
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The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Community
Nations
Prosperity
Welfare
World
Each Individual
Inextricably
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On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Contrary
Domain
Public Life
Characteristic
Element
Finally
Invaded
Irrevocably
On The Contrary
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The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Institutions
Organized
Partnership
Sovereignty
Unesco
Enter
Induced
Internationally
Measure
National
Obligations
Worldwide
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In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Buying
Materials
Modern World
Nations
World
Hardly
Interdependent
Loans
Successfully
Wage
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But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Loyal
Members
Retaliation
Self Defence
Aggressor
Armed
Collective
Cut
Invite
Relations
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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Civilization
Danger
Midst
Multitudes
Nations
Oppression
Paradox
Preparing
Starving
Although
War Peace People
Gigantic
Pledged
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Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Arms
Maintaining
Race
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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Abandoned
Anarchy
Civilization
Cost
Human Suffering
International
Realization
Years
War World Suffering
Led
Mercifully
Minds
Survive
To Survive
World War
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I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Anarchy
Believe
Civilization
Democracy
Enterprise
International
Nationalism
Western
Competitive
Consider
Essential
Rent
Survive
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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Balance
Favour
Great Responsibility
Juncture
Nations
Scales
Throwing
Weight
Affairs
Joint
Right Side
Tip
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The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Anarchy
Conflict
Disarmament
Focal Point
Inevitable
Order
Struggle
Thinking
World Order
Peace Great World
Armed
Conference
Durable
Focal
Seek
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Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Confidence
Action
Common
Despair
Haste
Mood
Position
Quiet
Resolution
Sober
Address
Carefully
Consider
Must
Instead
Let Us
Pause
Survey
Task
Therefore
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In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Anarchy
Balance
Balance Of Power
Conclusion
Country
Elements
International
Opinion
Preparation
Return
Welcome
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
British
British Empire
Firm
France
Nations
United States Of America
Condition
Armies
Competitive
Empire
Italy
Therefore
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In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Comprehensive
Disputes
Impossible
International
May
Paper
Solemn
Obligations
Peacefully
Resort
Settle
Treaty
Violating
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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Believe
Done
Explaining
Nations
Opinion
Propose
War Power Peace
Banish
Devote
In My Opinion
War Peace Power
Paths
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