Note 5 — Chapter VII · ToC
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Art. 4.—"German Democracy can only welcome a League of Nations that has itself a really democratic constitution and that recognises without reserve or restriction the liberty and equality of all its members. We shall have no members of inferior status in our commonwealth, but neither will we be of inferior status in the League of Nations."—Dr. Preuss, speech introducing the Draft Constitution, February, 1919. The phases of this clause have been reviewed above, see p. 236.