FastSaying

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.

Related Quotes

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
— Arthur Henderson
NationsWarWorld
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
— Arthur Henderson
MeasureNationsPartnership
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
— Arthur Henderson
BeforeBoundCommunity
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
— Arthur Henderson
AffairsBalanceFavour
The four Test nations from Asia have reached an understanding and a written bid will be made in the next few days.
— Sharad Pawar
NationsUnderstandingWill