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All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

Hjalmar Branting

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Hjalmar Branting
Age: 64 †
Born: 1860
Born: November 23
Died: 1925
Died: February 21
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Swedish Politician
Karl Hjalmar Branting
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