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Mr. Eden, one of the most socially-conscious aristocrats who have ever been British Foreign Secretary, once told the House, Mr. Chamberlain reminded his hearers, that "our armaments may be used in bringing help to the victim of aggression in any case where in our judgment it would be proper...
"The Soviet Government," said Maxim Litvinoff, "being cognizant . . . of its obligations under the League Covenant and the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and under the treaties of mutual assistance concluded with France and Czechoslovakia . . . is ready . . . to participate in collective actions that would be decided upon jointly with it and that would...
The unanimous consent required for official League action by the Geneva Covenant was only obtained on two measures: intellectual cooperation, and bilateral treaties for the protection of minorities. Majority decisions included recommendations in favor of the Palestine partition and aid for Spain and China.
In the House of Lords, prominent Jewish and Labor peers surprisingly outdid themselves in speeches calculated to dispose Adolf Hitler favorably to touch wood, that is Lord Halifax. One of Britain's top Jews, Viscount Samuel urged in the House of Lords that Germany be explicitly absolved of her...
Aristocrat Cecil during the War was British Minister of Blockade, became one of the drafters of the Covenant of the League of Nations. In 1924 he was the first winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's $25,000 award for having striven for "world Peace through Justice."