You may disarm the world …or abolish your battleships, but unless you introduce better economic conditions, better social conditions and better health conditions …, you will not be able to maintain peace even if you obtain it.
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You may disarm the world …or abolish your battleships, but unless you introduce better economic conditions, better social conditions and better health conditions …, you will not be able to maintain peace even if you obtain it.
Dame Rachel Crowdy, Chief of the Opium and Social Questions Section of the League of Nations, "The Humanitarian Activities of the League of Nations." Address given 12 April 1927.
Published as: Crowdy, R. (1927). The Humanitarian Activities of the League of Nations. Journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 6(3), 153-169.
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