Leon Bourgeois Quotes
Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.
Bourgeois, Léon. "The Reasons for the League of Nations." Nobel Lectures, Including Presentation Speeches and Laureates' Biographies: Peace 1901-1925, edited by Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, 1972, pp. 302-317.
The major purpose of the Black Hand was to create a single empire of ‘Greater Serbia’---a nation uniting all people of Serb extraction throughout Europe and the Balkans. They wanted to combine the lands where ethnic Serbs lived regardless of what other nation the land was a part of.
Evelyn John St. Loo Strachey
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois was a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party regarding a wide range of issues. He promoted progressive taxation such as progressive income taxes and social insurance schemes, along with economic equality, expanded educational opportunities, and cooperative solidarism. In foreign policy, he called for a strong League of Nations, and the maintenance of peace through compulsory arbitration, controlled disarmament, economic sanctions, and perhaps an international military force.
