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Disarmament and Life, January 22, 1922
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groups of workers who are trying to keep alive the children in that desolate city. The children were being brought back, some of them even from northern Sweden where they have spent some weeks or months of vacation. Little groups of welfare workers from every nation in Europe were doing what they could to keep from perishing the children of a devastated country, children who have been brought to such a low end of life during the long war, and if I may be permitted to say so, through the terms of the peace.
Desire to Conserve Life.
Another chord had been struck. A chord more primitive, more normal than war itself had been appealed to in the desire to keep children alive. We know the wonderful organizations for food administration which were formed among the allied nations. We know all the things that happened under the pressure of this great desire to keep the world. I believe there is in that desire to conserve life a great moral challenge, that it could quench the lust of war at its very source if we really trusted it and realized that it is quite as important as the other things.
Take the situation in Russia. At the assembly of the League of Nations last September Dr. Nansen pressed his claim. He begged for resources with which to carry out his plans for feeding millions of people who would otherwise perish. Quite irrespective of their political affiliations and of the political difficulties which were raised and brought up against him, I believe that not only would his plan save millions of Russian peasants from dying, but it would save the League of Nations itself to thousands of men and women of every nation who as yet understand it so little.
Humanitarian Aspect of League.
We have more than 100,000,000 people in the United States. It will take a long time to convince them, one by one, of the value of a League of Nations. But when you can convince the man in the street, the woman whose primitive obligation and who objective of life is to keep her children fed; when you can make them see that the league
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groups of workers who are trying to keep alive the children in | groups of workers who are trying to keep alive the children in that desolate city. The children were being brought back, some of them even from northern Sweden where they have spent some weeks or months of vacation. Little groups of welfare workers from every nation in Europe were doing what they could to keep from perishing the children of a devastated country, children who have been brought to such a low end of life during the long war, and if I may be permitted to say so, through the terms of the peace. | ||
Desire to Conserve Life. | Desire to Conserve Life. | ||
Another chord had been struck. A chord more primitive, more normal than war itself had been appealed to in the desire to keep children alive. We know the wonderful organizations for food administration which were formed among the allied nations. We know all the things | Another chord had been struck. A chord more primitive, more normal than war itself had been appealed to in the desire to keep children alive. We know the wonderful organizations for food administration which were formed among the allied nations. We know all the things that happened under the pressure of this great desire to keep the world. I believe there is in that desire to conserve life a great moral challenge, that it could quench the lust of war at its very source if we really trusted it and realized that it is quite as important as the other things. | ||
Take the situation in Russia. At the assembly of the League of Nations | Take the situation in Russia. At the assembly of the League of Nations last September Dr. Nansen pressed his claim. He begged for resources with which to carry out his plans for feeding millions of people who would otherwise perish. Quite irrespective of their political affiliations and of the political difficulties which were raised and brought up against him, I believe that not only would his plan save millions of Russian peasants from dying, but it would save the League of Nations itself to thousands of men and women of every nation who as yet understand it so little. | ||
Humanitarian Aspect of League. | Humanitarian Aspect of League. | ||
We have more than 100,000,000 people in the United States. It will take a long time to convince them, one by one, of the value of a League of Nations. But when you can convince the man in the street, the woman whose primitive obligation and who objective of life is to keep her children fed; when you can make them see that the league | We have more than 100,000,000 people in the United States. It will take a long time to convince them, one by one, of the value of a League of Nations. But when you can convince the man in the street, the woman whose primitive obligation and who objective of life is to keep her children fed; when you can make them see that the league | ||