Kvery man. who makes a choice to re
spect the rights of his neighbors, de
prives himself of absolute sovereign
ty, but he does It by promising never
to do wrong, and I cannot, for one,
see anything that robs me of any
Inherent rir.ht that I ought to re
tain, when I promise that I will f
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j "We engage. In the first sentence
j nf article ten, to respect and pre-
perve from external aggression, the
! territorial Integrity and the existing
! poltical independence, not oniy or
governments ; tne other member states, but of all
t tie demands i
: which they ;
of i
"But when is that Judgment going
To be expressed, my fellow citizens?
Only after It is evident that every
other resource has failed. And I
want to call your attention to the cen
tral machinery of the League of Na
tions. If any member of that
Iveague, or any nation not a member,
refuses to submit the question at Is
sue, either to arbitration or to dis
cussion by the council, there ensues
automatically, by the engagements of
this covenant, an absolute econom ic
boycott. There will be no trade with
that nation by any member of the
League; there will be no Interchange
of communication by post or tele
graph ; there will be no travel to or
from that nation; Its borders will be
closed ; no citizen of any other state
will be allowed to enter it and no one
of its citizens will be allowed to leave
It.
