The Archive · 1937

Moving Plea for Action

if the League could not defend right in a case of might, he added, it could at least point out the wrongdoer to the world. If it could not stop aggression, it could at least denounce it. If it could not enforce international laws als the principle of the Covenant, it could at least make known that it had not abandoned them. "If it cannot prevent the ruthless slaughter of innocent men, women and children end the wanton destruction of property by illegal, inhuman methods of aerial bombardment, it can at least make clear where its own sentiments are so as to reinforce the universal demand of the civilized world for its immediate abandonment."

Condemnation of the bombardment by speakers speech.

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