I am, however, confident that the organisation is too intelligent not to see that it would lose nothing if the articles in which it is interested were made an integral part of a Convention constituting a League of Nations; the League being already solely charged with giving effect to the articles in question.
Holland expresses confidence in the intelligence of the Labour organization regarding the integration of their interests into a League of Nations.
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