Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and the League Covenant, which are cited as bearing upon the matter.* In the event that the Rhine zone is violated by either France or Germany, England and Italy agree to come to the aid of the attacked power in punishing the aggressor...
Last spring a protocol to the League of Nations for the purpose of guaranteeing European frontiers and punishing any aggressor nation, having been laboriously arrived at, was knocked on the head by the refusal of Great Britain to sign...
...French, who at first thought that Britain was merely guaranteeing them against German aggression, cooled when they discovered that the suggested pact was a bilateral affair, capable of being used against them. But the fact that the might of the British Commonwealth would have to be confronted by an aggressor was a factor too important to be ignored. The French agreed; and an answer to the original German proposals was prepared for dispatch to Berlin...
...Because economic sanctions against an aggressor nation would be useless while so many nations, U. S., Germany, Russia, Turkey, etc.) were nonLeague members, for the reason that the effect would be to divert the trade of an outlawed aggressor from the signatory to the non-signatory states of the Protocol...
...Because the use of force against an aggressor in cases where economic sanctions had failed is strangely out of place in the Protocol, which was designed primarily to promote peace. Mr. Chamberlain said that war was in the pathology of international life; and, just as it was a bad thing for men to think too much about the possibility of disease, so it was wrong for the Protocol to stress...