Word: heaped
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Open covenants, openly arrived at" is an obsolete phrase in present European politics. The first meeting of the League of Nations, from which so many good tidings were to be spread around the world, has relegated that principle to the junk-heap of "new world idealism." The Council of the League, now under the control of the old school diplomats, is to conduct its meetings in secret, and withholds its minutes from the contaminating gaze of the public eye. One member only--Lord Robert Cecil--has protested, but to no avail...
...occupying the threatened district, France has shown her ability to put a stop to German pretensions. Some such action was inevitable, if the Treaty was to be saved from the international scrap-heap. It is a pity, though, that France, already so heavily burdened, should be compelled to take up the task alone. It is doubtful whether this occupation would ever have been necessary, if from the beginning the Allied powers had been more sensible in making their demands, or more firmly united in backing them up. As it is, France has undertaken a responsibility which rests properly upon...