Word: aggressors
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...Villard, the second speaker, emphasised the horrors of the battlefield and declared that he was encouraged to see the youth of today protesting and organizing against war. Overseas he pointed to the vigorous action of Great Britain at Geneva, and the spectacle of fifty nations employing sanctions against an aggressor nation. Mr. Villard also found encouraging the fact of Great Britain's declaring herself for a readjustment, even of her own territories, in order to forward peace. Holding that "you can't advance righteousness by mass murder", the former editor of the Nation closed with an earnest plea...
...League of Nations, lacking all coercive power whatsoever, can only express pretty sentiments, while the governments back home take whatever steps seem most advantageous to the national policy. Under such a system Britain must realize that to use genuine force against an aggressor would be to hold the fort singlehanded. No nation thinking of its own well-being could ever be so quixotic...
...undergraduates are eligible to take part in the debates, and candidates are asked to prepare a speech of not more than five minutes on either side of one of the following questions: "Resolved" That Italy is the unjust aggressor in the Ethiopian dispute," "Resolved: That the Roosevelt Administration deserves the confidence of the American people", and "Resolved: That the greatest problem of our national society is constitutional reform...
...numerous than neophytes not familiar with League loopholes could imagine. For example the Committee of Thirteen could draft a report such that Ethiopia might reject. Italy accept and the League be compelled to let Italy and other States conduct a war of sanctions against Ethiopia in the role of aggressor or Italy could withdraw from the League, as Japan did when threatened by a Council report, also under Article XV (TIME, April...
...threaten to resign as Labor Party Leader when the proletarian Socialists of British Labor's Trades Union Congress fortnight ago urged war if necessary to restrain Fascist Italy. Never a militant trade unionist, Mr. Lansbury warned Laborites last week at Dumfries: "War, either by the League against aggressor or by one State against another would leave the world more unsettled than after the last war. That war was waged because we had pledged help to Belgium. It ended in the complete defeat of Germany and her allies?but today, my friends, Germany is one of the most powerful States...