Hjalmar Branting

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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