But the (League Lord Halifax proceeded, was also machinery by which, after the Great War, it was sought to put these ideals into practice, and it had done many great things which had: meant much for the world but which were apt to be forgotten.
The League, he asserted, had a long record, of achievement. in. many fields to-its credit, While this was true, however, it was also necessary to recognize that the League was not, and never had been, the universal body for which its founders had hoped.
"We still intend" the Foreign Secretary declared, "to make the fullest use we can of the League within the limits which we are obliged to recognize, and I do not think those are disloyal to the League ideal who have regard to its actual capacity on the political side.
^Tt is no fault of the League, and present League be doing the very thing that would. be not only, on a long view, destructive of the hope of winning Germany and other Powers back to European ce-operation, possibly in some new form, but also we should be doing something against which we have always worked, namely, division of Europe into blocs formally ranged against one another and which, in our view, must greatly aggravate the of ultimate catastrophe.
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