Quote#Speech
Talk of a League of Nations! Let us at all events begin with a League…
Quote byEdward Carson, Baron Carson · 1854–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech (c. 10 December 1917), Liberal Magazine, XXV (1917), p. 606, quoted in Henry R. Winkler, ‘The Development of the League of Nations Idea in Great Britain, 1914-1919’, The Journal of Modern History Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1948), p. 105.
English (original)
Talk of a League of Nations! Let us at all events begin with a League of British Nations.
— Edward Carson, Baron Carson
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