The Quarterly Review, Volumen249William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1927 |
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... cause war in general to be regarded as the worst of human evils , unnecessary and to be avoided at any cost . We know only in rough outline what happened at Salamis . The tragedy of the battle cruisers at Jutland has been painted in ...
... cause war in general to be regarded as the worst of human evils , unnecessary and to be avoided at any cost . We know only in rough outline what happened at Salamis . The tragedy of the battle cruisers at Jutland has been painted in ...
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... caused a greater loss of human life , with suffering in more cruel forms , than the Great War . How should history ... cause of truth . The Great War stands out above all others in the intense complexity and novelty of its world ...
... caused a greater loss of human life , with suffering in more cruel forms , than the Great War . How should history ... cause of truth . The Great War stands out above all others in the intense complexity and novelty of its world ...
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... caused by vacillations in council . The whole tragic story has been vividly told by Sir W. Robertson , * who is able to supple- ment the Report of the Royal Commission , and it is unjust to attribute this lamentable fiasco ' to the ...
... caused by vacillations in council . The whole tragic story has been vividly told by Sir W. Robertson , * who is able to supple- ment the Report of the Royal Commission , and it is unjust to attribute this lamentable fiasco ' to the ...
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... causes of the most momentous failure in our naval history . Four years elapsed after the Battle of Jutland before the ... cause ' impelling us to fight off the Danish coast . What harm does it do us if the German Fleet takes a promenade ...
... causes of the most momentous failure in our naval history . Four years elapsed after the Battle of Jutland before the ... cause ' impelling us to fight off the Danish coast . What harm does it do us if the German Fleet takes a promenade ...
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... causes . Structural defects in this new type of warship caused the loss of more than 3300 officers and men in the three vessels sunk by explosion . In the second place , Admiral Sir J. Jellicoe had laid down in advance his general ...
... causes . Structural defects in this new type of warship caused the loss of more than 3300 officers and men in the three vessels sunk by explosion . In the second place , Admiral Sir J. Jellicoe had laid down in advance his general ...
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Página 81 - The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations.
Página 322 - In framing any recommendation or draft convention of general application the Conference shall have due regard to those countries in which climatic conditions, the imperfect development of industrial organisation or other special circumstances make the industrial conditions substantially different and shall suggest the modifications, if any, which it considers may be required to meet the case of such countries.
Página 329 - The Government Departments of any of the Members which deal with questions of industry and employment may communicate directly with the Director through the Representative of their Government on the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, or failing any such Representative, through such other qualified official as the Government may nominate for the purpose.
Página 82 - The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any...
Página 312 - League: (a) will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women, and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend...
Página 160 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Página 82 - The Members of the League agree that the manufacture by private enterprise of munitions and implements of war is open to grave objections. The Council shall advise how the evil effects attendant upon such manufacture can be prevented, due...
Página 174 - At last all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half-adozen donkeys. What a change! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled jacket thrown on one side, the cork slippers on the other. Puffing, panting, and perspiring, he pokes one sullen brute, thwacks another, cuffs a third, and curses a fourth, while one brays to the audience, and another rolls in the sawdust.
Página 329 - Office shall include the collection and distribution of information on all subjects relating to the international adjustment of conditions of industrial life and labor and particularly the examination of subjects which it is proposed to bring before the Conference with a view to the conclusion of international conventions, and the conduct of such special investigations as may be ordered by the Conference.
Página 312 - The High Contracting Parties, recognising that the wellbeing, physical, moral and intellectual, of industrial wageearners is of supreme international importance, have framed, in order to further this great end, the permanent machinery provided for in Section I and associated with that of the League of Nations. They...