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Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Desire
Fraternity
Human Nature
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Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Fraternity
Nations
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It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Corny
Enthusiastic
League
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It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Commonplace
Enthusiastic
Nations
Protagonists
Intended
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No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Running
League
Long
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No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Nations
Afford
Increasingly
Long Run
Remain
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But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
May
Regression
Years
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But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Disturbance
Regression
Ahead
Period
Eventually
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At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Agreement
Geneva
Ideas
Mutual
Natural
Neutral
Concerning
Exchange
Marked
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As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Attitude
League
Long
Nations
Reconstruction
Remains
World
All Nations
World Long Will
Attitudes
Center
Operate
Similar
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The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Conditions
Confusing
Fatherland
Social Conditions
Arisen
Encouraged
Modes
Prevail
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The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
War
Mean
Reflection
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The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Available
Broke
Consideration
Opinion
Public Opinion
Reflection
Violence
War Time World
Elemental
Leading
Misleading
No Time
Resort
World War
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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Degenerates
Firsts
League
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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Competing
Nations
Bound
Degenerate
First One
From Time To Time
Inevitably
Maintain
Powers
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The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Equality
Abolish
Concerned
Giving
Inequality
League
Members
Vote
Actual
Material
Powers
Provided
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A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Equality
Doe
Humanity
Use
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A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Accord
Humanity
Nations
Ideal
Increasingly
Recognized
Smaller
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We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Support
Understanding
Years
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We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
International
Mutual
Mutual Understanding
Representatives
Embark
Meeting
Natural Tendency
Quest
Tendency
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Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
League
Organization
Tasks
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Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
League
Nations
Organization
Protect
Return
Conflicting
Difficult Task
Interests
Let Us
Task
Wills
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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Assembly
Binding
Century
League
Meetings
Participating
Statesmen
Utopian
Annual
Effect
Extent
Official
Quarter
Regarded
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I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Community
Political
Son
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I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Appearance
Friction
Nations
Return
Son
Creates
Overlook
Prodigal
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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
League
Taken
Years
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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Assembly
Initiative
Last Year
Nations
Prescribing
Sanctions
Taken
Clause
Further
Limited
Participate
Provisions
Result
Scandinavian
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Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Ignorant
International
Labor
Labor Movement
Nevertheless
Permit
Salvation
Workers
Hoped
More Or Less
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As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
War
Decades
Denied
Fraternity
Imperfection
Two
War Peace Great
Aspirations
Further
Hopes
Imperfections
One Or Two
Result
Whose
World War
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There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Agreement
Formation
League
Nations
No Reason
Reason Why
Neutral
Existing
So-Called
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We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
Hjalmar Branting / Swedish Politician
Independence
Brighter
Brighter Future
Resolution
Taste
Allow
Bought
Falter
Whom
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