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

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions

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

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

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

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.

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?