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AS the year draws to its close, the passing of time reminds us of the useful convention whereby we are encouraged to enter upon some sort of a stocktaking preparatory to the closing of the annual account. In such a survey of the past year, the chain of events which has threatened, and still endangers, the peace of the world must be a salient item. Here, however, the very magnitude of the issues involved hampers critical judgment, and while the event is weighed in the scale according as it has made for or against the working of the machine which we call the League of Nations, it may not readily be discerned that ‘profit and loss' are not to be assessed in terms of the number of nations declaring their formal adherence to Article xvi, but rather in any real progress towards the universal application of the fundamental principle of justice as between man and man, towards which the League was a gesture of aspiration, as well as an admittedly imperfect piece of machinery for its attainment.
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Justice in Africa. Nature 136, 1003–1005 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361003a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1361003a0