Word: documented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was already a plan in existence aiming at the maintenance of world peace ad infinitum. This document was called the Covenant of The League. The new ideas, it was decided, should not interfere with the Covenant, but should reinforce it. A protocol to the Covenant was the method adopted of putting the new ideas into effect. It was early decided to reserve the matter of disarmament for a special international conference to be convoked at Geneva on June...
...Premier MacDonald signed the treaty with Soviet Russia early in August, political prognosticators termed the action "the first note in Labor's funeral march". Perhaps the metaphor was a bit premature, for certainly MacDonald was not yet dead. But if the storm of protest that arose immediately after the document was signed can be taken as a symptom, there can be little doubt that the Government was in a critical position...
...Conservatives, who hoped to make stock of the Russian document, did not seem to have as keen an ear for the murmur as the person at whom the protest was directed, for as soon as the applause set in they were frightened into a policy of hopeful waiting. When the applause was to die down they hoped to stir the murmur into a growl and with a late fall campaign to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Government to force an election...
...What could we do? We have not settled claims, but we have drafted a document which we believe will settle these claims. We are not giving a loan to Russia. All we have done is to guarantee a loan, which is a little different...
...liberals and progressives cannot support a man who as President of the American Bar never opened his mouth through years of hysteria and persecution in defense of rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, a document which he seems solicitous to defend not when it is in danger of suspension, but only when it is in need of orderly and vital amendment...