Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson PCwas a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the first Labour cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniquely, served three separate terms as Leader of the Labour Party in three different decades. He was popular among his colleagues, who called him "Uncle Arthur" in acknowledgement of his integrity, his devotion to the cause and his imperturbability. He was a transitional figure whose policies were, at first, close to those of the Liberal...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 September 1863
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
We cannot give up hope for the future of humanity because it is our destiny to shape that future for good or ill.
Originally the League was forbidden to touch the subject of tariffs, and there was a strong predisposition to regard banking as a mystery that must be removed entirely from the purview of governments.
Men and women everywhere are once more asking the old question - is it peace?
But the standards of statecraft insisted upon the untrammeled claim of each nation to uphold its own view of its rights by force and to build whatever armaments it considered necessary for this purpose.
When we saw a down tick in the economy, pet businesses continued to do OK, ... People were very elastic when it came to spending for their pets.
It has been said that since September, 1931, the world has been divided into wholehearted violators and halfhearted supporters of the Covenant.
But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.