The British People and the League of Nations
The British People and the League of Nations

Author(s): George Gilbert Aimé Murray
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Cobden;
Summary/Abstract: Though the League of Nations came to the people of England eventually as a new idea, the movement had roots in this country long before the War. There were various religious sects, especially the Society of Friends & the Plymouth Brethren, which regarded all war as a crime. There were the ordinary pacific tendencies in the parties of the left, well known in other European countries, which had of late drawn new inspiration from the writings of Tolstoy. Above all, there was the great peace-tradition connected with the names of Cobden and Bright, which formed the idealistic side of the Free Trade movement and the economics of the Manchester School. Free Trade in England has never been simply an economic doctrine. It is held by its votaries as a kind of ethical ideal, an emblem and instrument of that fair dealing between all nations and all parts of humanity which is an essential condition of human brotherhood.

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