League of Nations

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Travel Iris Murdoch
IM 's early travel was mostly political: Geneva for the League of Nations summer school, Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp in the intoxicating postwar moment of personal reunions and renewed intellectual freedom. Even her delighted...
Travel Kathleen E. Innes
Kathleen and George Innes led the first of several annual tours to attend League of Nations Assembly sittings in Geneva.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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Travel Evelyn Sharp
ES 's time in Berlin brought her an engagement for a lecture tour of Holland in November 1920.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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In 1923 she made two visits back to Germany, both in order to report on the...
Travel Iris Murdoch
The schoolgirl IM spent ten days at a League of Nations Summer School for young people at Geneva.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Despard
The diaries cover her part (including her production of journalism) in the political drives towards women's suffrage, pacifism, Irish independence, socialism, penal reform, and the founding of the League of Nations .
“Papers of Charlotte Despard”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Evelyn Waugh
The man who emerges as the white protagonist of the story, Basil Seal, is in trouble with his feckless, privileged circle at home, fed up and wanting to get away, when he is invited to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edith Lyttelton
This two-page publication summarizes a longer report made by the Commission for Protection of Women and Children in the Near East . It focuses primarily on rescue efforts directed by Karen Jeppe (from Denmark)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rose Macaulay
In this book delegates to a League of Nations conference at Geneva disappear at an alarming rate, and contrasting national characteristics are amusingly depicted.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
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According to literary critic Alice Crawford , the novel is...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
The book boasted decorations by B. Aylmer . Contributors included the Countess of Limerick (Crossing the Jordan), Irene Noel-Baker (A Landlord in Greece), Helen Simpson (In Search of Witches),...
Textual Production Edith Lyttelton
EL 's participation in the League of Nations assembly resulted in the publication of a leaflet or report, Protection of Women and Children in the Near East, focusing on rescue efforts in the Ottoman Empire.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Eleanor Rathbone
ER 's short political treatise War Can Be Averted: The Achievability of Collective Security (Left Book Club ) argued for collective security organized by the League of Nations , and against either appeasement, non-intervention, or disarmament.
Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
KEI 's The Story of the League of Nations , Told for Young People, a textbook used in British schools, was published by the Hogarth Press .
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
KEI published How the League of Nations Works, Told for Young People with the Hogarth Press : 2,500 copies were printed.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
Anne Bradby, later Ridler, was highly precocious in some kinds of writing. Her elder brother at the front in World War One recorded receiving a long and interesting letter from her when she was only...

Timeline

March 1917: British troops invading Ottoman territory,...

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March 1917

British troops invading Ottoman territory, having suffered defeat at Kut the previous spring, succeeded in capturing Baghdad.

7 May 1919: The League of Nations assigned Samoa as mandated...

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7 May 1919

The League of Nations assigned Samoa as mandated territory to New Zealand.

28 June 1919: The Treaty of Versailles was signed, settling...

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28 June 1919

The Treaty of Versailles was signed, settling the peace terms imposed by the victors of World War I on Germany and its allied nations.

November 1919: The American Senate voted against the United...

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November 1919

The American Senate voted against the United States joining the League of Nations .

1 January 1920: The League of Nations officially came into...

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1 January 1920

The League of Nations officially came into being—without the United States, although the first suggestion for such a body had been made by President Woodrow Wilson .

19 March 1920: The US Senate refused to endorse the Treaty...

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19 March 1920

The US Senate refused to endorse the Treaty of Versailles (signed on 28 June 1919, which set, among other things, the post-war French-German frontier).

25 April 1920: The Supreme Allied Council, supported by...

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25 April 1920

The Supreme Allied Council , supported by the League of Nations , gave Britain the Mandate to administer Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq, formed from the three Turkish provinces of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra) and for Palestine (present-day Israel).

15 November-18 December 1920: The first League of Nations Assembly met...

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15 November-18 December 1920

The first League of Nations Assembly met.

: A conference held at Cairo installed the...

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Spring1921

A conference held at Cairo installed the Hashemite Faisal I as king of Iraq, then a new entity under British Mandate conferred by the League of Nations .

June 1921: Nansen passports were first issued by the...

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June 1921

Nansen passports were first issued by the League of Nations to identify refugees and stateless persons. Dr Fridjtof Nansen , Norwegian Arctic explorer appointed League of Nations Commissioner for refugees, was awarded the Nobel Peace...

1923: The League of Nations sponsored an International...

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1923

The League of Nations sponsored an International Conference in Geneva for the Suppression of Obscene Publications.

24 July 1923: Turkey agreed to cede territory under the...

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24 July 1923

Turkey agreed to cede territory under the Treaty of Lausanne; this signalled the end of the Ottoman Empire.

10 September 1923: The Irish Free State (Saorstt Éireann) entered...

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10 September 1923

The Irish Free State (Saorstt Éireann) entered the League of Nations .

16 October 1925: The Locarno Agreements (sometimes known as...

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16 October 1925

The Locarno Agreements (sometimes known as treaties or guarantees) were signed: a series of undertakings among various European countries mutually to guarantee each other's borders.

29 May 1926: Dr Ethel Williams set out from Aberdeen to...

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29 May 1926

Dr Ethel Williams set out from Aberdeen to walk the more than two hundred miles to London on the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage.

Texts

Lyttelton, Edith. Protection of Women and Children in the Near East. League of Nations.