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The truth is, I was never a very good Party man. Probably but for the War of 1914, I should have gone on fairly comfortably as a Conservative official.

— Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood A Great Experiment (1941)

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The League is dead; long live the United Nations!

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Thenceforth, the effort to abolish war seemed to me, and still seems to me, the only political object worth while.

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The great difficulty of all schemes for leagues of nations and the like has been to find an effective sanction against nations determined to break the peace.

We see the world as it is now, after these defeats of the League, and we can compare it with what it was six or seven years ago. The comparison is certainly depressing; the contrast is terrible.

The Future of Civilization (1938)

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