TITLE

Six to One

PUB. DATE
October 1919
SOURCE
New Republic;10/8/19, Vol. 20 Issue 257, p282
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Presents a critique on the importance of six votes of the British Empire in the League of Nations when it comes to taking action against England following the First World War. Cases in which the six votes of the British Empire matter; View that the world is diplomatically grouped, and whatever criticism there may be it cannot be centered upon Britain alone; Significance of the vote by India as part of the British Empire in the context of the debate.
ACCESSION #
15123810

Tags: GREAT Britain -- Colonies;  SOCIAL criticism;  DEBATES & debating;  LEAGUE of Nations;  WORLD War, 1914-1918;  INTERNATIONAL cooperation

 

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