Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust for conquest nor sense of dependence upon other peoples. But there is an immense concern for the world's peace and a deep consciousness of the power of the United States to restrain the dangerous ambitions of nations which still have the taste of blood. The Hearsts and their kind who represent...
...credit would play in the after effects of the war and to suggest the impossibility of collecting an indemnity commensurate with the cost of modern war. He also argued that even victory could not bring political safety or economic welfare, and that the usual assumption concerning the advantages of conquest and political power were illusory...
Fifth, the other kind of war is a war of conquest and such a war is made practically impossible by Article X. Article X has been enormously misrepresented but is very simple and easily understood. It consists of only two sentences. The first sentence is as follows...
...real justification for Article X is that it morally binds every member of the league to immediate action against any nation attempting a war of conquest providing the nine members of the council unanimously decide that action should be taken. This provision, it is thought, will be strong enough to prevent any nation of the world daring to attack another with a view to disputing its independence or taking its territory...
...hundred years ago the United States in the Monroe Doctrine notified the nations of the world that the United States would go to war if any European country undertook a war of conquest in the Western Hemisphere. That announcement was criticised at the time by reactionary statesmen who said it would involve us in wars with European countries for the protection of little republics in the New Yorld. It has never cost us a dollar and never cost us a man but it has prevented European nations from interfering with the territorial integrity and political independence of 20 American republics...