Those Powers Who Fall Within The First Category Present Us
with no moral, legal or practical problem: it is evident that we must respond to their attitude with extreme respect. Those Powers who belong to the second category do not......
I Derived The Impression That The Majority Of Those Present
pregarded the doctrine of neutrality as some legal fiction of the nineteenth century. The juridical basis of neutrality had been shaken, if not destroyed, by articles sixteen......
From The Moral Point Of View, Any Preventive Action, Any
negotiations which might sully the virginity, or wound the pride, of the smaller neutrals, would be incompatible with the ideas and purposes by which our intervention in this......
The Motion Before The House Was "that Nazi Aggression Has
left no room for neutrality today." The University of Oxford has always been justly proud of its irrelevance, and the Union has for generations cultivated the excellent habit of......
That Scot Over There Was The Counterpart Of The Mcqueen
of my own vintage, who would tell slow stories about Polybius and who played hockey very well indeed. That little bright- eyed, stooping figure over there recalled for me the......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON A T the end of last week I visited Oxford and attended the presidential debate in the Union. The hall was crowded, and as my eyes wandered along the rows of......
I Admit That The Nineteenth-century Shrub Of Neutrality...
seared by the sharp frosts of Adolf Hitler. Yet the moral and the practical trunk remains. We must cut down to the roots. What are the roots? One of the speakers in the Union......
How Agreeable It Was To Observe With What Kindliness The
hungry generations tread us down ; how comforting to find that the amateurs should speak so much better than the pro- fessionals; and to discover that the Union (which of late......