Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...dealt with it in that light. It was their efforts, their foresight and their perseverance, combined with the American resources placed at their disposal, which in spite of European opposition, not only averted an immense amount of suffering, but even preserved the governmental systems of Europe from a widespread breakdown...
...utter breakdown of the demand for the war criminals made Germany think that she could act with utter impunity in whatever she chose; and this point of view was only natural. Such a demand ought never to have been made, or else, once made, it should have been backed up by united action. The faults of the Treaty of Versailles are, indeed, well exposed by the recent series of events. Most clearly of all is exposed our own fallacy in thinking that the Treaty could ever be self-executing. Without the League, the Treaty possesses no constructive or motive principle...