[304]. When, for example, a typhus epidemic broke out in Poland, and the Polish authorities found themselves unable to control it, the League sent a commission of health experts to assist them.
[305]. This is because not only Great Britain herself but India, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand are members of the League. It was assumed that the six British votes in the Assembly would always be cast together; but, as a matter of fact, the various British dominions insisted upon having separate votes in order that they might vote according to their own particular interests. In most international matters the interests of Canada, Australia, and South Africa are not at all certain to coincide with those of England.
[306]. Since the treaty and the covenant were joined together, the objections to one applied to the other. Concerning Shantung, see also p. 620.
[307]. The term “soviet” means council or meeting. The constitution of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic may be found in Frank Comerford, The New World, pp. 281-305.
[308]. Nikalai Lenin is now the head of this Council; Leon Trotzky is Minister of War in it. Each member of the Council is head of a department.
[309]. The breakdown was due in part, no doubt, to the disorganization wrought by the war and the internal revolts which broke out in Russia after the war. To make matters worse there were crop failures, with resulting famines, in some of Russia’s best grain-producing regions.
[310]. It is quite true that some men and women work because they like to work and dislike to be idle, or because they feel that what they do is of value to the community, or for some other reason not directly connected with their pay. They form, however, a very small fraction of the total body of wage-earners.
[311]. Voters.
[312]. Annulled by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
[313]. Superseded by the Seventeenth Amendment.