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" I accept the pact of peace as a covenant of personal and national honor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Poling's Endeavorers | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

The meeting will be modeled as closely as possible after the assemblies of the League of Nations. The convenant of the actual League has been adapted to the students' purpose with as few changes as possible. This covenant will be put to vote at the meeting of the assembly.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' League of Nations in First Meeting to Discuss the Question of Disarmament--Friedrich to Open Discussion | 5/18/1929 | See Source »

The second major proposal of last week was offered on behalf of Germany. It envisions an international agreement pledging every nation to make public all details concerning its armaments. Although very unpopular among the Allied Powers, this plan cannot be ignored as offered in "bad faith," because it happens to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bad Faith! | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

"... The three-power disarmament conference failed because the ground had not been prepared. . . . The cardinal weakness of that conference was that questions of naval strategy were always to the fore and emphasis on strategy always deflects policy. ... It is policy which ought first to be determined. ... If indications are given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Disarmament | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

The fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Billions in the Balance | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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