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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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