"Talk of a League of Nations! Let us at all events begin with a League of British Nations."
— Edward Carson

January 1, 1970

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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