Episode 261 – International Law?
The Corbett Report Podcast
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🗓️ 8 March 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Corbett Report. |
| 0:07.0 | Corbett report. |
| 0:09.0 | Corbett.com. The new nations hope to protect their fragile freedom through the international body that |
| 0:26.6 | met for the first meeting in a Swiss hotel. |
| 0:37.0 | Its supporters shared an optimistic belief that a new era of international relations was beginning. |
| 0:46.0 | They were undeterred by the fact that the Americans weren't there. |
| 0:55.0 | Congress had refused to join, and that the Russians and the Germans weren't members either. |
| 1:00.0 | They believed the League could replace the bad old world of secret diplomacy with open discussion. |
| 1:08.0 | Public opinion would always be listened to. |
| 1:12.0 | Weak countries would have a voice as well as listened to. |
| 1:13.0 | Weak countries would have a voice as well as the strong. |
| 1:18.0 | Poland's Prime Minister, the pianist Paderevsky, called it the dawn of a new order. The League tried to build up popular |
| 1:26.1 | support for its work. Jennifer Hart campaigned for the idea in Britain. |
| 1:31.2 | My role in the League of Nations Union was to try and get members of the public to understand the ideas behind the league, |
| 1:39.0 | especially that it was a totally new thing, especially this concept of it was one was concerned if |
| 1:46.8 | Nation A was attacking Nation B, you couldn't just stand on sidelines, and to get public opinion to bring pressure on government to use the machinery |
| 1:56.4 | of the League. |
| 1:57.4 | So I didn't go around looking for faults in the government or weaknesses so much as saying look it's a wonderful new |
| 2:04.1 | construction and it could be made to work if people really wanted to make it work. |
| 2:10.1 | Welcome ladies and gentlemen welcome to another edition of the Corbett report. |
| 2:14.0 | I'm your host James Corbett of Corbettreport.com coming to you on the 8th day of March 2013, |
| 2:20.0 | and you are tuned into episode 261 of the Corporate Report Podcast, |
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