Swords and Ploughshares: Or, The Supplanting of the System of War by the System of LawLondon, 1912 - 249 pages |
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... probably a comparatively small number of men who have pulled the strings , that the great body of the public is undoubt- edly right - minded , and that right action will surely follow the fuller education for which American peace ...
... probably a comparatively small number of men who have pulled the strings , that the great body of the public is undoubt- edly right - minded , and that right action will surely follow the fuller education for which American peace ...
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... probably not have occurred if we had had an Atlantic cable and known of England's concession in withdrawing the Orders in Council which were the main cause of the war ; the Mexican War , which was primarily fought in the interests of ...
... probably not have occurred if we had had an Atlantic cable and known of England's concession in withdrawing the Orders in Council which were the main cause of the war ; the Mexican War , which was primarily fought in the interests of ...
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... vote on the naval budget , that Japan has so many hundred thousand soldiers that she can land upon our shores , and that we are unprepared for possible dangers . Now Japan will probably not pay off her National Dangers and Defence 27.
... vote on the naval budget , that Japan has so many hundred thousand soldiers that she can land upon our shores , and that we are unprepared for possible dangers . Now Japan will probably not pay off her National Dangers and Defence 27.
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... probably not pay off her heavy war debts for a generation and her people are taxed thirty to forty per cent on their incomes . She has a good system of education , but , without proper schoolhouses , her schools are held in sheds . She ...
... probably not pay off her heavy war debts for a generation and her people are taxed thirty to forty per cent on their incomes . She has a good system of education , but , without proper schoolhouses , her schools are held in sheds . She ...
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... Probably you did not know that , when Perry opened Japan to the knowledge of Western history , one thing that shocked the Japan- ese was the awfully bloody histories of the nations on this side of the globe ; and one of their greatest ...
... Probably you did not know that , when Perry opened Japan to the knowledge of Western history , one thing that shocked the Japan- ese was the awfully bloody histories of the nations on this side of the globe ; and one of their greatest ...
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Page 111 - And all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and...
Page 235 - The preservation of peace has been put forward as the object of international policy; it is in its name that great States have concluded between themselves powerful alliances; it is the better to guarantee peace that they have developed in proportions hitherto unprecedented their military forces, and still continue to increase them without shrinking from any sacrifice. " All these efforts nevertheless have not yet been able to bring about the beneficent results of the desired pacification. The financial...
Page 236 - The economic crises, due in great part to the system of armaments a entrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war material, are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing burden, which the peoples have more and more difficulty in bearing.
Page 74 - That a commission of five members be appointed by the President of the United States, to consider the expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and by constituting the combined navies of the world an international force for the preservation of universal peace...
Page 235 - Government thinks that the present moment would be very favorable for seeking, by means of international discussion, the most effectual means of insuring to all peoples the benefits of a real and durable peace, and, above all, of putting an end to the progressive development of the present armaments.
Page 235 - The intellectual and physical strength of the nations, labor and capital, are for the major part diverted from their natural application, and unproductively consumed. Hundreds of millions are devoted to acquiring terrible engines of destruction, which, though today regarded as the last word of science, are destined tomorrow to lose all value, in consequence of some fresh discovery in the same field.
Page 75 - For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.
Page 181 - WAR I abhor, And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife; and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
Page 236 - I'outrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war material, are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing burden, which the peoples have more and more difficulty in bearing. It appears evident, then, that if this state of things were prolonged, it would inevitably lead to the very cataclysm which it is desired to avert, and the horrors of which make every thinking man shudder in advance.
Page 113 - The Contracting Powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.