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...noted statesmen who are on occasion to be found in Geneva, none is personally more impressive than strongly-built, white-haired Fridtjof Nansen, Norway's all-round scientist, author, explorer, public servant...
...Nansen estimates that $2,250,000 will be enough to end permanently relief work in the Near East. He has a promise from the Greek Government to subscribe $180,000 a month, and believes that America will give the balance...
Ireland was admitted into the sacred circle of the League of Nations by unanimous vote. On all sides there were spontaneous manifestations of good-will toward Ireland. In eloquent speeches, representatives of Britain, France, China, Persia and other countries extended felicitations to the Free State representative. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen of Norway concluded with: " Let us not forget that Norway furnished our new colleague State with one of her first Kings...
...Seven" of the Fourth Convention are: Lord Robert Cecil, Britain; Fridjof Nansen, Norway; M. Motta, Switzerland; ex-Premier Hjalmar Branting, Sweden; President Cosgrave, Ireland; General Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa; Edouard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia...
...practical constructive nature, such, in many cases, as have never before been accomplished in the world. To cite a few examples: it has set up for the first time in history a workable Court of International Justice; it has done the immense work, through its High Commissioner, Dr. Nansen, of repatriating 330,000 prisoners of war; it has actually prevented two wars, and brought a third to a close; and it has saved a nation, Austria, from the verge of bankruptcy and crumbling social run, by a carefully-planned international loan...