World problems in review: as to Geneva.(Reprint)(Essay)

From: World Affairs | Date: June 22, 2007 | Copyright information

HAPPENINGS in Spain, the Far East, and in certain Chancellories of Europe are not encouraging to the friends of the League of Nations.

The Treaty of Versailles, redrawing much of the map of the world, included also the covenant of the League of Nations--an effort to avoid the repetition of a conflict like the World War. The League aimed to maintain peace, to further international cooperation, to bring about disarmament. It guaranteed its members' territorial integrity and...

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