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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. -- Fredrik Bajer
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States -- Hideki Tojo
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. -- Hideki Tojo
In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support. -- Pankaj Mishra
Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. -- Yitzhak Rabin
I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. -- Winston Churchill
In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva. -- Frederick Reines
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first. -- William Glasser
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. -- Joseph Stalin
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground. -- Elliott Abrams
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. -- Margaret MacMillan
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin -- Jonathan Sacks
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. -- Joseph Stalin

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