A STUDY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BY A COMMITTEE OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION, London INCLUDING LORD ROBERT CECIL & LORD PHILLIMORE EDITED BY OLIVER BRETT MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED FOREWORD IN these disturbed and troubled times events move quickly and this book, based as it is upon the documents issued day by day at Geneva, may in some respects appear to be already more historical than topical. But the record of the First Assembly does not share the ephemeral attributes of most contemporary affairs. So bold, so unique is the political experiment undertaken by humanity at Geneva that the story must remain as perennially interesting as would a graphic account of the assembled Barons upon the field of Runnymede. The following pages, though they may possess the disadvantages in literary style and cohesion inevitable in composite work, can perhaps lay claim to the compensating advantages of reflecting the colour and variety of individual experience and presenting from different angles of vision the most 14 |