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Indeed it is rather likely to fail to embark upon experiments and decisions it ought to make from an excessively delicate sense of what some particular nation may feel.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski warns that an overly cautious international authority may fail to take necessary actions.
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If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
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