League of Nations

As the political climate moved increasingly towards war, ER advocated League of Nations sanctions against Mussolini 's Italy (with the threat of force), as well as a closer relationship between Britain and the USSR in...

Her review concedes that elements of Mayo's argument and approach were flawed, but insists that the book drew valuable attention to India's social problems, especially child marriage. Using quotations and statistics from the League of Nations

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...

Brought up in a Conservative family, MR began in her late twenties and early thirties to develop the Socialist views she espoused throughout her adulthood. She said, however, I never joined any party ....

The first such confrontation in which the Peace Army intervened was the Manchurian Crisis (which had begun in September 1931 when the Japanese launched a forcible takeover of the Chinese region of Manchuria). The...

The UDC lasted until the mid-sixties. After World War One, it concentrated on foreign affairs, pressing for a reformed League of Nations (to include Germany and Russia), opposing expanded imperialist activities in China and East...

ES 's time in Berlin brought her an engagement for a lecture tour of Holland in November 1920. In 1923 she made two visits back to Germany, both in order to report on the...

At the end of her school days Mary had her sights set on a high-powered secretarial course and working for the League of Nations . But when she was set to write an essay on...

Following her experience as a parliamentary candidate and an (unpaid) MP's secretary and advisor, RS worked for the League of Nations with Lord Robert Cecil .

She later devoted much time and effort to work for the League of Nations Union and then the League of Nations itself.

In the light of the First World War and its aftermath, ASS 's latent interest in politics came to life, taking the form of a desire to serve the League of Nations (whose later fall...

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...

While she had mixed feelings for the relatives on her mother's side, EW greatly enjoyed her father's side of the family. His half-sister Margaret Bryant was a respected journalist for The Observer and although her...

VW 's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was...

The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Its political interests were served by enlightened...