And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Hjalmar BrantingA formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal
Hjalmar BrantingNo 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