Word: covenanter
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Professor Hudson upbraided those who were against the League because the covenant failed to provide for every petty difficulty.
Bishop Brent described the persennel of the Secretariat of the League and told of his own experiences as a member of one of the committees of the Assembly. He explained the workings of the Covenant saying that the "League is not a super-state, but a servant trying to benefit...
It has been a familiar assertion of politicians that the presidential election of 1920 was a national repudiation by the American electorate of the proposal that the United States should join the League of Nations established by the "Covenant" embodied in the Treaty of Versailles and the other Peace Treaties...
Never was there a scholar who was less of a pedant, or a statesman who was more impatient with empty forms and artificial contrivances and more anxious to lay hold of living realities. The League of Nations was to him not so much an international covenant as a process of...
"It is a sign of idealistic immaturity to say that we should enter a league of which we disapprove in the hope of making it better. Some other nation with the same purpose would make it what we should call worse. If the United States were to say, 'we will...