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The Giant Task
Gordon, J. King | August 14, 1948 issue

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The article presents information on the book "From the League to U.N.," by Gilbert Murray. It is one of the paradoxes of English society that one of its great fighters for world peace is a mild-mannered classical scholar from the cloistered retreats of Oxford. At eighty-two Gilbert Murray is still a fighter, bloodied in his long battle to make the League the dominant force in world affairs, unbowed as he looks forward to the tasks that face the United Nations. They constitute a remarkable testament of a man who never allowed his idealism to blind him to the brute realities of the struggle for power or to restrain him from bitter censure of those men and nations who betrayed the peace.

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FROM the League to UN (Book); MURRAY, Gilbert, 1866-1957; SOCIAL structure; REALISM; UNITED Nations; SCHOLARS
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