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But his supreme blunder, Bailey declared may be considered by some as "forcing the full text of the League Covenant into the Treaty, for Article X of the Covenant was the rock upon which the ratification finally floundered.... A brief statement committing the signatories to the general principles of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE-MAKING ERRORS SHOWN | 1/4/1944 | See Source »

Out stuck request No. 6: "To open immediately ... the doors of Palestine, the Holy Land of our forefathers which was given to Israel for eternal heritage by the Lord, blessed be His name, with oath and covenant." The Vice President, his voice low, squirmed through a diplomatically minimum answer and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Oil & the Rabbis | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Yet there is no doubt that the League was sold to the peoples of the world-and turned down by the U.S. Senate-largely on the basis of Article 16 of its Covenant, which clearly contemplates the prevention of war by the use of military force. The sorry failure of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREEDOM FROM ATTACK: International Police | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

The League had no militia of its own, no bombers, or battleships to send around the world under an international flag. But its teeth consisted, precisely as the Covenant meant them to consist, of the armed forces of the member nations.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREEDOM FROM ATTACK: International Police | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Last week the House Naval Affairs Committee began looking for war babies who might not have heard about the pact. It is necessary only to look at the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange (lowest in seven years) to see that business as a whole is not profiteering. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Wonderful Man | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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